Epithelial-to-endothelial transition and cancer stem cells: Two cornerstones of vasculogenic mimicry in malignant tumors

Oncotarget

Volumn 8, Issue 18, 2017, Pages 30502-30510

  Sun, Baocun ^a   Zhang, Danfang ^a   Zhao, Nan ^a   Zhao, Xiulan ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cells; Epithelial to endothelial transition; Hypoxia; LPPCN; Vasculogenic mimicry

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CANCER STEM CELL; EPITHELIAL ENDOTHELIAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LINEARLY PATTERNED PROGRAMMED CELL NECROSIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TISSUE PRESSURE; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VASCULOGENIC MIMICRY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; HYPOXIA; NECROSIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85018882121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.8461     Document Type: Review

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