Not exact matches
«Mechanisms cancer cells use to establish
metastatic brain tumors revealed
by research.»
«We believe that small subsets of
metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used
by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the
brain, and other organs.
CSCs were prepared from 231BrM and CN34BrM cells that were infected with lentivirus carrying with or without miR -7-2, and they were transplanted into nude mice through intracardiac injection followed
by monitoring
metastatic tumor growth in the
brain.
Furthermore, we examined the expression of KLF4 in
brain metastatic tissues
by immunohistochemistry and found that KLF4 was expressed more in the nucleus and significantly less in cytosol in
brain metastatic tissues compared with primary
tumors (Fig. 6C and D).
They found that injecting into the carotid artery breast cancer cells that express markers allowing them to enter the
brain — cells labelled with bioluminescent and fluorescent markers to enable tracking
by imaging technologies — resulted in the formation of many
metastatic tumors throughout the
brain, mimicking what is seen in advanced breast cancer patients.
To further validate the clinical significance of miR - 7 and KLF4 in
brain metastasis of breast cancer, we microdissected
tumor tissues from both primary and
brain metastatic lesions followed
by conducting TaqMan qRT - PCR.