The matrix environmental and cell mechanical properties regulate cell migration and contribute to the invasive phenotype of cancer cells

CT Mierke - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The minimal structural unit of a solid tumor is a single cell or a cellular compartment such as
the nucleus. A closer look inside the cells reveals that there are functional compartments or …

A robust unsupervised machine-learning method to quantify the morphological heterogeneity of cells and nuclei

JM Phillip, KS Han, WC Chen, D Wirtz, PH Wu - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Cell morphology encodes essential information on many underlying biological processes. It
is commonly used by clinicians and researchers in the study, diagnosis, prognosis, and …

Three-dimensional cell migration does not follow a random walk

PH Wu, A Giri, SX Sun, D Wirtz - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Cell migration through 3D extracellular matrices is critical to the normal development of
tissues and organs and in disease processes, yet adequate analytical tools to characterize …

Three-dimensional matrix fiber alignment modulates cell migration and MT1-MMP utility by spatially and temporally directing protrusions

SI Fraley, P Wu, L He, Y Feng, R Krisnamurthy… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Multiple attributes of the three-dimensional (3D) extracellular matrix (ECM) have been
independently implicated as regulators of cell motility, including pore size, crosslink density …

The Arp2/3 regulatory system and its deregulation in cancer

N Molinie, A Gautreau - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The Arp2/3 complex is an evolutionary conserved molecular machine that generates
branched actin networks. When activated, the Arp2/3 complex contributes the actin …

Actin-based cell protrusion in a 3D matrix

PT Caswell, T Zech - Trends in cell biology, 2018 - cell.com
Cell migration controls developmental processes (gastrulation and tissue patterning), tissue
homeostasis (wound repair and inflammatory responses), and the pathobiology of diseases …

Modes of invasion during tumour dissemination

P Pandya, JL Orgaz, V Sanz‐Moreno - Molecular oncology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cell migration and invasion underlie metastatic dissemination, one of the major
problems in cancer. Tumour cells exhibit a striking variety of invasion strategies. Importantly …

Personalized immunotherapy against several neuronal and brain tumors

S Kuttruff-coqui, T Weinschenk, J Fritsche… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
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Synergistic IL-6 and IL-8 paracrine signalling pathway infers a strategy to inhibit tumour cell migration

H Jayatilaka, P Tyle, JJ Chen, M Kwak, J Ju… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Following uncontrolled proliferation, a subset of primary tumour cells acquires additional
traits/mutations to trigger phenotypic changes that enhance migration and are hypothesized …

The fundamental role of mechanical properties in the progression of cancer disease and inflammation

CT Mierke - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of mechanical properties in cancer disease and inflammation is still
underinvestigated and even ignored in many oncological and immunological reviews. In …