The role of CCL21/CCR7 chemokine axis in breast cancer-induced lymphangiogenesis

Molecular Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tutunea Fatan, Elena ^a   Majumder, Mousumi ^a   Xin, Xiping ^a   Lala, Peeyush K ^a,b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHILDREN S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; CCL21 chemokine; CCR7 chemokine receptor; Lymphangiogenesis; Protein kinase B; Vascular endothelial growth factor C

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; MESSENGER RNA; PODOPLANIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; SECONDARY LYMPHOID TISSUE CHEMOKINE; VASCULOTROPIN C; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BREAST TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHEMOKINE CCL21; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RECEPTORS, CCR7; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C;

EID: 84924255532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14764598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12943-015-0306-4     Document Type: Article

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