Cancer-associated fibroblasts: overview, progress, challenges, and directions

Q **, R Yan, X Cheng, W Wang, Y Zhong… - Cancer gene …, 2021 - nature.com
Tumors are one of the main causes of death in humans. The development of safe and
effective methods for early diagnosis and treatment of tumors is a difficult problem that needs …

Cancer‐associated fibroblasts in breast cancer: Challenges and opportunities

D Hu, Z Li, B Zheng, X Lin, Y Pan, P Gong… - Cancer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tumor microenvironment is proposed to contribute substantially to the progression of
cancers, including breast cancer. Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are the most …

CancerSEA: a cancer single-cell state atlas

H Yuan, M Yan, G Zhang, W Liu, C Deng… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
High functional heterogeneity of cancer cells poses a major challenge for cancer research.
Single-cell sequencing technology provides an unprecedented opportunity to decipher …

Decoding leader cells in collective cancer invasion

SA Vilchez Mercedes, F Bocci, H Levine… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Collective cancer invasion with leader–follower organization is increasingly recognized as a
predominant mechanism in the metastatic cascade. Leader cells support cancer invasion by …

Heterogeneity of the head and neck squamous cell carcinoma immune landscape and its impact on immunotherapy

M Canning, G Guo, M Yu, C Myint… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are highly aggressive, multi-factorial
tumors in the upper aerodigestive tract affecting more than half a million patients worldwide …

[HTML][HTML] Vimentin on the move: new developments in cell migration

RA Battaglia, S Delic, H Herrmann, NT Snider - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The vimentin gene (VIM) encodes one of the 71 human intermediate filament (IF) proteins,
which are the building blocks of highly ordered, dynamic, and cell type-specific fiber …

Vimentin intermediate filaments as potential target for cancer treatment

K Strouhalova, M Přechová, A Gandalovičová… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intermediate filaments constitute the third component of the cellular skeleton. Unlike actin
and microtubule cytoskeletons, the intermediate filaments are composed of a wide variety of …

Metastasis and MAPK pathways

M Kciuk, A Gielecińska, A Budzinska… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. In many cases, the treatment of the disease is
limited due to the metastasis of cells to distant locations of the body through the blood and …

Vimentin diversity in health and disease

F Danielsson, MKK Peterson, H Caldeira Araújo… - Cells, 2018 - mdpi.com
Vimentin is a protein that has been linked to a large variety of pathophysiological conditions,
including cataracts, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and cancer. Vimentin has also …

Cytoskeletal remodeling in cancer

J Aseervatham - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cell migration is an essential process from embryogenesis to cell death.
This is tightly regulated by numerous proteins that help in proper functioning of the cell. In …