Understanding the effects of Eph receptor mutations in cancer cells will help shed light on the role of the Eph receptor / ephrin system in
cancer cell transformation, malignant progression and drug resistance.
Not exact matches
They are hypothesized to be the
cells that undergo cancerous
transformation and cause Merkel
cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of skin
cancer with no effective treatment.
Thus, the sustained activation which is necessary for a
transformation of
cells into
cancer cells is lacking.
This
transformation is triggered by chemical signals, which could be blocked in order to stop
cancer cells from spreading.
«The actual
transformation into
cancer cells is caused by other, unrelated factors and can occur later.
Cancer arises from the
transformation of normal
cells into tumour
cells in a multistage process that generally progresses from a pre-cancerous lesion to a malignant tumour.
Human breast
cancer cells generated by oncogenic
transformation of primary mammary epithelial
cells.
Interestingly, suppression of Dicer activities is reported to result in promotion of epithelial - mesenchymal transistion and metastatic
transformation of
cancer cells.
Some of their goals include the unravelling of disease mechanisms by using nanomaterials to track cellular components and probe the chemical niche of the
cells, the
transformation of adult human
cells into induced pluripotent stem
cells and the delivery of drugs directly to immune and
cancer cells.
-- Although endometriosis is benign disease, it shares many of the features of
cancer cells with a potential for malignant
transformation.
FeLV can cause
cancer by directly promoting
transformation of normal
cells into cancerous
cells, and by causing significant immunosuppression, which makes a cat more vulnerable to both infections and
cancer.
Cancer occurs when normal
cells undergo a
transformation whereby they grow and multiply without normal controls.