Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

The roles of matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors in human diseases

GA Cabral-Pacheco, I Garza-Veloz… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of zinc-dependent extracellular matrix (ECM)
remodeling endopeptidases that have the capacity to degrade almost every component of …

Targeting copper in cancer therapy: 'Copper That Cancer'

D Denoyer, S Masaldan, S La Fontaine, MA Cater - Metallomics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Copper is an essential micronutrient involved in fundamental life processes that are
conserved throughout all forms of life. The ability of copper to catalyze oxidation–reduction …

TIMPs: versatile extracellular regulators in cancer

HW Jackson, V Defamie, P Waterhouse… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
A compelling long-term goal of cancer biology is to understand the crucial players during
tumorigenesis in order to develop new interventions. Here, we review how the four non …

Tumor microenvironment components: Allies of cancer progression

PIR Franco, AP Rodrigues, LB de Menezes… - … -Research and Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is a disease that affects millions of individuals worldwide and has a great impact on
public health. Therefore, the study of tumor biology and an understanding of how the …

Matrix stiffening promotes a tumor vasculature phenotype

F Bordeleau, BN Mason, EM Lollis… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Tumor microvasculature tends to be malformed, more permeable, and more tortuous than
vessels in healthy tissue, effects that have been largely attributed to up-regulated VEGF …

The extracellular matrix: a dynamic niche in cancer progression

P Lu, VM Weaver, Z Werb - Journal of cell biology, 2012 - rupress.org
The local microenvironment, or niche, of a cancer cell plays important roles in cancer
development. A major component of the niche is the extracellular matrix (ECM), a complex …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in myofibroblast biology: paradigms for connective tissue remodeling

B Hinz, SH Phan, VJ Thannickal, M Prunotto… - The American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The discovery of the myofibroblast has opened new perspectives for the comprehension of
the biological mechanisms involved in wound healing and fibrotic diseases. In recent years …

The myofibroblast matrix: implications for tissue repair and fibrosis

F Klingberg, B Hinz, ES White - The Journal of pathology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Myofibroblasts, and the extracellular matrix (ECM) in which they reside, are critical
components of wound healing and fibrosis. The ECM, traditionally viewed as the structural …

The rationale for targeting the LOX family in cancer

HE Barker, TR Cox, JT Erler - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
The therapeutic targeting of extracellular proteins is becoming hugely attractive in light of
evidence implicating the tumour microenvironment as pivotal in all aspects of tumour …