Role of stromal myofibroblasts in invasive breast cancer: stromal expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin correlates with worse clinical outcome

M Yamashita, T Ogawa, X Zhang, N Hanamura… - Breast cancer, 2012 - Springer
Stromal changes at the invasion front include the appearance of fibroblasts and … α-SMA
expression were extracted and quantified as the relative percentage of the α-SMA positive area …

α-Smooth muscle actin expression and desmoplastic stromal reaction in pancreatic cancer: results from the CONKO-001 study

M Sinn, C Denkert, JK Striefler, U Pelzer… - British journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
… This finding is in line with our results that demonstrated furthermore that not only collagen
deposition but also a dense stroma quality in general may be a positive prognostic factor in …

Relationships of alphaSMApositive fibroblasts and SDF‐1‐positive tumor cells with neoangiogenesis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

S Wang, N Ma, S Kawanishi, Y Hiraku… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… In this study, we firstly found α-SMA-positive fibroblasts in the stroma of NPC tissues. CAFs,
activated fibroblasts that often express α-SMA within desmoplastic lesions, are associated …

Alpha-smooth muscle actin-positive stromal cells in cholangiocarcinomas, hepatocellular carcinomas and metastatic liver carcinomas

T Tadashi, M Kiyoko, T Noboru, S Yasuo, N Yasuni - Journal of hepatology, 1996 - Elsevier
… a-smooth muscle actin (ASMA)-positive stromal cells in a … -positive perisinusoidal cells
and intratumoral ASMA-positive … Modulation of alpha smooth muscle actin and desmin expression …

Integrin α11 is overexpressed by tumour stroma of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and correlates positively with alpha smooth muscle actin expression

H Parajuli, MT Teh, S Abrahamsen… - Journal of Oral …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… expression of a well-known marker of CAF, alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), in HNSCC.
… in stroma of primary HNSCC and that it colocalizes with α-SMA. Expression of α-SMA at …

Alpha-smooth muscle actin expression in the stroma predicts resistance to trastuzumab in patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer

IA Vathiotis, MK Moutafi, P Divakar, TN Aung… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
… Although the expression of α-SMA in the stroma did not correlate with leukocytic infiltration,
we noted a positive correlation with CTLA-4 in the leukocyte compartment. Upregulation of …

[PDF][PDF] αSmooth muscle actinpositive perisinusoidal stromal cells in human hepatocellular carcinoma

H Enzan, H Himeno, S Iwamura, S Onishi… - …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
… In conclusion, there were significant numbers of stromal cells strongly positive for a-SMA in
… Modulation of alpha smooth muscle actin and desmin expression in perisinusoidal cells of …

[HTML][HTML] Histochemical and immunohistochemical study of α-SMA, collagen, and PCNA in epithelial ovarian neoplasm

N Anggorowati, CR Kurniasari… - Asian Pacific journal …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… collagen and α-SMA area fractions in stroma were higher in … used to calculate positively
expressed α-SMA in epithelial cells: (… Alpha-SMA that positively expressed in stromal cells was …

Alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SM actin) in normal human ovaries, in ovarian stromal hyperplasia and in ovarian neoplasms

B Czernobilsky, E Shezen, B Lifschitz-Mercer, M Fogel… - Virchows Archiv B, 1989 - Springer
… We propose that the ~-SM actin positive cells seen here in the stroma of ovarian epithelial
tumors in close proximity to epithelial elements may be secondary to stimulation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of myofibroblasts by expression of alpha smooth muscle actin: a marker in fibrosis, dysplasia and carcinoma

B Rao, N Malathi, S Narashiman… - Journal of clinical and …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… of their component, Alpha smooth muscle actin ([alpha]-SMA), … Stromal spindle cells which
were positive for (alpha)-SMA … the percentage of (alpha)-SMA Positive cells according to the …