[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of vasculogenic mimicry in hypoxic tumor microenvironments

X Wei, Y Chen, X Jiang, M Peng, Y Liu, Y Mo, D Ren… - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Background Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a recently discovered angiogenetic process
found in many malignant tumors, and is different from the traditional angiogenetic process …

[HTML][HTML] Metastasis-associated in colon cancer-1 promotes vasculogenic mimicry in gastric cancer by upregulating TWIST1/2

L Wang, L Lin, X Chen, L Sun, Y Liao, N Huang… - Oncotarget, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a blood supply modality that is strongly associated with the
epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), TWIST1 activation and tumor progression. We …

Vascular mimicry formation is promoted by paracrine TGF-β and SDF1 of cancer-associated fibroblasts and inhibited by miR-101 in hepatocellular carcinoma

J Yang, Y Lu, YY Lin, ZY Zheng, JH Fang, S He… - Cancer letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Vascular mimicry (VM) describes the phenomenon that tumor cells but not endothelial cells
form vascular-like channels, which provide blood perfusion for tumor tissues. VM is …

Targeting vasculogenic mimicry by phytochemicals: a potential opportunity for cancer therapy

S Haiaty, MR Rashidi, M Akbarzadeh, NF Maroufi… - IUBMB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is regarded as a process where very aggressive cancer cells
generate vascular‐like patterns without the presence of endothelial cells. It is considered as …

Exploring stemness gene expression and vasculogenic mimicry capacity in well-and poorly-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines

K Lirdprapamongkol, K Chiablaem, M Sila-Asna… - Biochemical and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is the phenomenon where cancer cells mimic endothelial cells
by forming blood vessels. A stem cell-like phenotype has been proposed to be involved in …

[HTML][HTML] A novel role for cyclooxygenase-2 in regulating vascular channel formation by human breast cancer cells

GD Basu, WS Liang, DA Stephan, LT Wegener… - Breast cancer …, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Introduction Cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 expression correlates directly with highly
aggressive and metastatic breast cancer, but the mechanism underlying this correlation …

[HTML][HTML] The driving mechanism and targeting value of mimicry between vascular endothelial cells and tumor cells in tumor progression

X Ma, Z Geng, S Wang, Z Yu, T Liu, S Guan… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The difficulty and poor prognosis of malignant tumor have always been a difficult problem to
be solved. The internal components of solid tumor are complex, including tumor cells …

Studying tumor angiogenesis and cancer invasion in a three‐dimensional vascularized breast cancer micro‐environment

M Dey, B Ayan, M Yurieva, D Unutmaz… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metastatic breast cancer is one of the deadliest forms of malignancy, primarily driven by its
characteristic micro‐environment comprising cancer cells interacting with stromal …

[HTML][HTML] Thymoquinone inhibited vasculogenic capacity and promoted mesenchymal-epithelial transition of human breast cancer stem cells

S Haiaty, MR Rashidi, M Akbarzadeh… - … Medicine and Therapies, 2021 - Springer
Background Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is characterized by the formation of tubular structure
inside the tumor stroma. It has been shown that a small fraction of cancer cells, namely …

Role of Twist in vasculogenic mimicry formation in hypoxic hepatocellular carcinoma cells in vitro

M Jin-lu, H Su-xia, Z Qing, Z Jing, Z Dan, W Li… - … and biophysical research …, 2011 - Elsevier
Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) refers to the unique ability of highly aggressive human tumor
cells to form matrix-rich networks de novo when cultured on a three-dimensional matrix, thus …