Neutrophil extracellular traps in cancer progression

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 4179-4194

  Cools Lartigue, Jonathan ^a   Spicer, Jonathan ^a   Najmeh, Sara ^a   Ferri, Lorenzo ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Inflammation; Metastatis; Neutrophil; Neutrophil extracellular traps

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN G; GELATINASE B; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CHROMATIN; DNA;

CANCER GROWTH; CELL ADHESION; CELL ASSAY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME RELEASE; EXTRACELLULAR TRAP; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY TUMOR; REVIEW; TARGET CELL DESTRUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; DISEASE COURSE; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR INVASION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CATHEPSIN G; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CHROMATIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA; EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 84922011987     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1683-3     Document Type: Review

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