The chemokine receptor CX3CR1 is directly involved in the arrest of breast cancer cells to the skeleton

WL Jamieson-Gladney, Y Zhang, AM Fong… - Breast Cancer …, 2011 - Springer
Introduction Skeletal metastases from breast adenocarcinoma are responsible for most of
the morbidity and mortality associated with this tumor and represent a significant and unmet …

The role of CXCR3 and CXCR4 in colorectal cancer metastasis

T Murakami, K Kawada, M Iwamoto… - … journal of cancer, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chemokines and their receptors play key roles in leukocyte trafficking and are also
implicated in cancer metastasis. We previously demonstrated that forced expression of …

CXCL12/CXCR4 transactivates HER2 in lipid rafts of prostate cancer cells and promotes growth of metastatic deposits in bone

SR Chinni, H Yamamoto, Z Dong, A Sabbota… - Molecular Cancer …, 2008 - AACR
Chemokines and their receptors function in migration and homing of cells to target tissues.
Recent evidence suggests that cancer cells use a chemokine receptor axis for metastasis …

CXCR4: a key receptor in the crosstalk between tumor cells and their microenvironment

JA Burger, TJ Kipps - Blood, 2006 - ashpublications.org
Signals from the microenvironment have a profound influence on the maintenance and/or
progression of hematopoietic and epithelial cancers. Mesenchymal or marrow-derived …

Organ-specific inhibition of metastatic colon carcinoma by CXCR3 antagonism

B Cambien, BF Karimdjee, P Richard-Fiardo… - British journal of …, 2009 - nature.com
Liver and lung metastases are the predominant cause of colorectal cancer (CRC)-related
mortality. Recent research has indicated that CXCR3/chemokines interactions that …

Chemokines and cancer

A Zlotnik - International journal of cancer, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The chemokines and their receptors are a superfamily of small secreted molecules that
control the migration of many cell types in the body. Several years ago it became clear that …

CXCR2 expression in tumor cells is a poor prognostic factor and promotes invasion and metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma

P Saintigny, E Massarelli, S Lin, YH Ahn, Y Chen… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
CXCR2 in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been studied mainly in stromal cells
and is known to increase tumor inflammation and angiogenesis. Here, we examined the …

CCR7 and CXCR4 as Novel Biomarkers Predicting Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in T1 Breast Cancer

N Cabioglu, MS Yazici, B Arun, KR Broglio… - Clinical Cancer …, 2005 - AACR
Purpose: The chemokine receptors CCR7 and CXCR4 have been shown to play an
important role in cancer metastasis. We therefore studied the differential expression of …

CXCR4 and cancer

B Furusato, JS Rhim - Chemokine Receptors in Cancer, 2009 - Springer
The chemokine receptor CXCR4 belongs to the large superfamily of G-protein-coupled
receptors, and is directly involved in a number of biological processes including …

Development of a unique small molecule modulator of CXCR4

Z Liang, W Zhan, A Zhu, Y Yoon, S Lin, M Sasaki… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Metastasis, the spread and growth of tumor cells to distant organ sites,
represents the most devastating attribute and plays a major role in the morbidity and …