Circulating melanoma cells and survival in metastatic melanoma

C Rao, T Bui, M Connelly, G Doyle… - International …, 2011 - spandidos-publications.com
… of circulating melanoma cells (CMCs) may facilitate the development of more effective
therapies for metastatic melanoma patients. In this study CD146+ cells were immunomagnetically …

Why is melanoma so metastatic?

RR Braeuer, IR Watson, CJ Wu… - … cell & melanoma …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… MUC18 in metastatic melanoma cells significantly reduced … metastatic melanoma cells are
incapable of performing. The upregulation of VE-cadherin in highly metastatic melanoma cells

Primary melanoma cells of the vertical growth phase: similarities to metastatic cells

M Herlyn, G Balaban, J Bennicelli… - Journal of the …, 1985 - academic.oup.com
… Melanocytic cells from various stages of tumor progression have been little characterized. …
of 3 primary melanoma cell lines and a total of 16 metastatic melanoma cell lines from the …

A gene expression signature of invasive potential in metastatic melanoma cells

AR Jeffs, AC Glover, LJ Slobbe, L Wang, S He… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
… generating melanoma cell lines in order to develop new therapies for metastatic melanoma,
… that correlated with the invasive potential of metastatic melanoma cell lines in vitro. This is …

Cannibalism of live lymphocytes by human metastatic but not primary melanoma cells

L Lugini, P Matarrese, A Tinari, F Lozupone, C Federici… - Cancer research, 2006 - AACR
metastatic melanoma cell survival, particularly under starvation condition, supporting the
evidence that tumor cells … that human metastatic melanoma cells may eat live T cells, which are …

Cellular adhesion pathways and metastatic potential of human melanoma

EC McGary, DC Lev, M Bar-Eli - Cancer biology & therapy, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
melanoma cell line (SB-2) with low metastatic potential that did not express detectable levels
of MCAM/MUC18. The SB-2 cell … into a highly metastatic melanoma cell line lacking the wild…

Expression of tissue factor by melanoma cells promotes efficient hematogenous metastasis.

BM Mueller, RA Reisfeld… - Proceedings of the …, 1992 - National Acad Sciences
… High-level expression of TF thus characterizes these metastatic melanoma cells. Indirect
immunofluorescence was used to assess whether TF was expressed on the tumor cell surface …

Efficient tumour formation by single human melanoma cells

E Quintana, M Shackleton, MS Sabel, DR Fullen… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Melanoma-initiating (tumorigenic) cells were reported to be rare based on the observation
that only 1 in 1,090,000 human metastatic melanoma cells … freshly dissociated melanoma cells

Current concepts of metastasis in melanoma

B Zbytek, JA Carlson, J Granese, J Ross… - Expert review of …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
cells is regulated by adhesion molecules, matrix metalloproteases, … Melanoma cells
may travel along external vessel lattices. After settling in the metastatic sites, melanoma cells

Transendothelial function of human metastatic melanoma cells: role of the microenvironment in cell-fate determination

MJC Hendrix, REB Seftor, EA Seftor, LM Gruman… - Cancer research, 2002 - AACR
… mimicry by aggressive human melanoma cells. In the present study, Ad-RFP (RFP-expressing
Ad) or EGFP-labeled human cutaneous metastatic melanoma cells were injected im into …