Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer invasiveness: What can we learn from cholangiocarcinoma?

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2028-2041

  Brivio, Simone ^a   Cadamuro, Massimiliano ^a,b   Fabris, Luca ^b,c   Strazzabosco, Mario ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer associated fibroblast; Cholangiocarcinoma; Cholangiocyte; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Invasiveness; Metastatization; Tumor reactive stroma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BETA CATENIN; CALVASCULIN; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 19; GELATINASE B; GROWTH FACTOR; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MICRORNA 200C; MICRORNA 214; MICRORNA 34A; NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN CDC42; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZEB1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN; WNT PROTEIN;

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER STEM CELL; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 85048742612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jcm4121958     Document Type: Review

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