Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition: lessons from development, insights into cancer and the potential of EMT-subtype based therapeutic intervention

J Antony, JP Thiery, RYJ Huang - Physical biology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a fundamental developmental process
wherein polarized epithelial cells lose their junctional architecture and apical-basal polarity …

Differential effects of Nintedanib and Pirfenidone on lung alveolar epithelial cell function in ex vivo murine and human lung tissue cultures of pulmonary fibrosis

M Lehmann, L Buhl, HN Alsafadi, S Klee… - Respiratory …, 2018 - Springer
Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal interstitial lung disease. Repetitive
injury and reprogramming of the lung epithelium are thought to be critical drivers of disease …

Nucleotides and nucleoside signaling in the regulation of the epithelium to mesenchymal transition (EMT)

AS Martínez-Ramírez, M Díaz-Muñoz… - Purinergic …, 2017 - Springer
The epithelium-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important process of cell plasticity,
consisting in the loss of epithelial identity and the gain of mesenchymal characteristics …

GRHL2-miR-200-ZEB1 maintains the epithelial status of ovarian cancer through transcriptional regulation and histone modification

VY Chung, TZ Tan, M Tan, MK Wong, KT Kuay… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a biological process by which polarized
epithelial cells convert into a mesenchymal phenotype, has been implicated to contribute to …

[HTML][HTML] Gene signatures of tumor inflammation and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) predict responses to immune checkpoint blockade in lung cancer with …

JC Thompson, WT Hwang, C Davis, C Deshpande… - Lung cancer, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB) has resulted in striking clinical responses, but only in a subset of patients …

The role of GRHL2 and epigenetic remodeling in epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity in ovarian cancer cells

VY Chung, TZ Tan, J Ye, RL Huang, HC Lai… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer cells exhibit phenotypic plasticity during epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT)
and mesenchymal–epithelial transition (MET) involving intermediate states. To study …

Co-delivery of bufalin and nintedanib via albumin sub-microspheres for synergistic cancer therapy

Y Xu, Y Liu, Q Liu, S Lu, X Chen, W Xu, F Shi - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Albumin nanoparticles represent an approved anti-tumor drug delivery system. However,
there is only one albumin nanoparticle product (paclitaxel-albumin nanoparticle) on the …

[HTML][HTML] Fibroblastic foci, covered with alveolar epithelia exhibiting epithelial–mesenchymal transition, destroy alveolar septa by disrupting blood flow in idiopathic …

M Yamaguchi, S Hirai, Y Tanaka, T Sumi… - Laboratory …, 2017 - Elsevier
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive interstitial lung disease of
unknown cause. IPF has a distinct histopathological pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia in …

Recognition Imaging of Trace E-cadherins on the Bladder Cancer Cells Surface during Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition by Force–Distance Curve-Based AFM

M Zhang, J Qin, X Guo, Z Li, C Rankl, B Zhang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tumor-associated epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) contains a set of transitional
cellular states usually judged by the EMT marker expression. E-cadherin is a down …

[HTML][HTML] Celecoxib targets breast cancer stem cells by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandin E2 and down-regulating the Wnt pathway activity

C Huang, Y Chen, H Liu, J Yang, X Song, J Zhao… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pharmacological targeting of breast cancer stem cells (CSCs) is highly promising for the
treatment of breast cancer, as the small population of CSCs is responsible for tumor …