New insights into the mechanisms of epithelial–mesenchymal transition and implications for cancer

A Dongre, RA Weinberg - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cellular programme that is known to be crucial
for embryogenesis, wound healing and malignant progression. During EMT, cell–cell and …

Epithelial mesenchymal transition in tumor metastasis

V Mittal - Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Metastasis is the major cause of cancer-related deaths; therefore, the prevention and
treatment of metastasis are fundamental to improving clinical outcomes. Epithelial …

Hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotypes promote metastasis and therapy resistance across carcinomas

MK Jolly, JA Somarelli, M Sheth, A Biddle… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cancer metastasis and therapy resistance are the major unsolved clinical challenges, and
account for nearly all cancer-related deaths. Both metastasis and therapy resistance are …

EMT and MET: necessary or permissive for metastasis?

MK Jolly, KE Ware, S Gilja, JA Somarelli… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) and its reverse mesenchymal‐to‐epithelial
transition (MET) have been suggested to play crucial roles in metastatic dissemination of …

Clinical applications of the CellSearch platform in cancer patients

S Riethdorf, L O'Flaherty, C Hille, K Pantel - Advanced drug delivery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The CellSearch® system (CS) enables standardized enrichment and enumeration
of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that are repeatedly assessable via non-invasive “liquid …

Mapping lung cancer epithelial-mesenchymal transition states and trajectories with single-cell resolution

LG Karacosta, B Anchang, N Ignatiadis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Elucidating the spectrum of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal-
epithelial transition (MET) states in clinical samples promises insights on cancer progression …

Differentiation therapy revisited

H de Thé - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The concept of differentiation therapy emerged from the fact that hormones or cytokines may
promote differentiation ex vivo, thereby irreversibly changing the phenotype of cancer cells …

[HTML][HTML] Cell–cell adhesion: linking Wnt/β-catenin signaling with partial EMT and stemness traits in tumorigenesis

S Basu, S Cheriyamundath, A Ben-Ze'ev - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Changes in cell adhesion and motility are considered key elements in determining
the development of invasive and metastatic tumors. Co-opting the epithelial-to …

Interplay of EMT and CSC in Cancer and the Potential Therapeutic Strategies

S Tanabe, S Quader, H Cabral, R Ono - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The mechanism of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) consists of the cellular
phenotypic transition from epithelial to mesenchymal status. The cells exhibiting EMT exist in …

Epithelial–mesenchymal-transition-inducing transcription factors: new targets for tackling chemoresistance in cancer?

J van Staalduinen, D Baker, P Ten Dijke, H van Dam - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Chemoresistance remains a major complication of cancer treatments. Recent data provide
strong evidence that chemoresistance is linked to epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) …