Impact of the physical microenvironment on tumor progression and metastasis

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 41-48

  Spill, Fabian ^a,b   Reynolds, Daniel S ^a   Kamm, Roger D ^b   Zaman, Muhammad H ^a,c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; PORE SIZE; STEM CELLS;

CANCER DEVELOPMENT; CANCER STEM CELLS; CELLULAR BEHAVIORS; METASTATIC POTENTIAL; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR PROGRESSIONS;

TUMORS;

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN LYSINE 6 OXIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAZ; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YAP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; COLLAGEN FIBER; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HYPOXIA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84978523885     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.02.007     Document Type: Review

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