In a first set of experiments, postdoctoral researcher and co-lead author Max - Felix Häring found that insulin increased the proliferation of mouse
epithelial tumor cells in culture, as expected.
Thus,
epithelial tumor cells must undergo phenotypical changes that allow them to breach the basement membrane, invade adjacent tissues and ultimately form distant metastases.
Not exact matches
The now - mesenchymal
cells can then travel to a remote site, where they eventually convert back to their
epithelial state and clump together into a secondary
tumor.
The mechanisms that promote or enable drug resistance include drug inactivation, drug target alteration, drug removal from
cells, DNA damage repair,
cell death inhibition and the
epithelial - mesenchymal transition (EMT) that enable solid
tumors to transform into more metastatic grades.
Part of the cytoskeleton, vimentin gives flexibility and structure to the
cell, but it is also a marker of
epithelial - mesenchymal transition (EMT), which is considered a crucial event for metastasis in
epithelial tumors.
The study, which followed four individuals for a year after they were treated with embryonic stem
cell - derived retinal pigment
epithelial cells for macular degeneration, observed no serious side effects (
tumor growth or other unexpected effects) related to the therapy.
«Our system is based around a molecule called E-cadherin, which suppresses
tumor growth in part by maintaining
cells in an
epithelial rather than a mesenchymal state,» Tomoki Muramatsu of TMDU says.
In addition, they found that
epithelial - derived MMP9 suppresses
tumors in CAC by activating the MMP9 - Notch1 - ARF - p53 axis pathway, which increases apoptosis, initiates
cell cycle arrest and keeps a check on DNA damage.
The
cell changes, known as an
epithelial to mesenchymal transition, or EMT, are normal and helpful during wound healing, but problematic when cancer
cells spread from the primary
tumor site to other sites in the body.
Different
tumor subtypes can include glandular, which include the mammary glands, as well as squamous, which are very rare and involve
epithelial cells that line the inside of the breast.
Unrestrained
epithelial cell extrusion has been linked to
tumor cell invasion and metastasis in other studies.
This study demonstrated that emulsifier - induced alterations in the microbiome were necessary and sufficient to drive alterations in intestinal
epithelial cells» homeostasis, which is thought to govern
tumor development.
The effects of consuming emulsifiers were eliminated in mice devoid of microbiota (germ - free mice), and transplanting microbiota from emulsifier - treated mice to germ - free mice was sufficient to transfer alterations in intestinal
epithelial cells» homeostasis, suggesting a central role played by the microbiota in
tumor development.
Collectively, these results suggest that Nrk negatively regulates the estrogen - dependent proliferation of mammary
epithelial cells, the disruption of which leads to breast
tumors.
The absence of
tumors in virgin Nrk mutant mice strongly suggests that the tumorigenesis is closely related to the proliferation of mammary
epithelial cells during pregnancy.
In Nrk mutant mammary glands, dense clusters of ER alpha - positive mammary
epithelial cells were sometimes observed at late stages of pregnancy, which may represent the «bud» of the breast
tumor.
Additionally, overexpression of POSTN in human mammary
epithelial and breast cancer
cells resulted in enhanced
tumor growth and metastasis (Wang et al., 2013), which is similar to a colon cancer
cell model where overexpression of POSTN resulted in an increase in the number and size of liver metastases (Bao et al., 2004).
Every
tumor cell line the researchers tested that had the
epithelial marker E-cadherin and not the mesenchymal marker Vimentin, had high amounts of miR - 200.
We use multiple mouse models combined with in vitro approaches to address the pleiotropic functions of these cytokines which affect both the
epithelial cancer
cells and the inflammatory infiltrate within
tumors.
Moreover, following transformation with H - Ras, these
cells initiated
tumor xenografts in immunocompromised mice with higher efficiency than their
epithelial counterparts [5].
The Joslin team found that intestinal
tumors grow just as quickly in a mouse cancer model whose «
epithelial»
cells lining the inside of the intestine have been genetically modified so that insulin can't activate the
cells.
Tumor necrosis factor alpha and inflammation disrupt the polarity complex in intestinal
epithelial cells by a posttranslational mechanism.
Oct4 Mediates
Tumor Initiating Properties in Oral Squamous
Cell Carcinomas through the Regulation of
Epithelial - Mesenchymal Transition.
In the classical model of
tumor dissemination, specialized
cells at the invasive front undergo
epithelial - mesenchymal transition (EMT) and enter peripheral
tumor - coalescing blood vessels to establish metastatic lesions by extravasation of CTCs.
The
epithelial - to - mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the reverse process (the mesenchymal - to -
epithelial transition [MET]-RRB- have been shown to be associated with
tumor cell invasion and metastasis in different carcinomas.
Keywords: Metastasis, Circulating
Tumor Cells, Intravasation,
Epithelial - Mesenchymal - Transition, Angiogenesis.
Oncologists have suspected for several decades that metastasis usually requires a transition between sticky
epithelial cells, which make up the bulk of solid
tumors, and thinner, more mobile mesenchymal
cells that are often found circulating solo in cancer patients» bloodstreams.
These
tumor promoting activities include inducing invasiveness and metastasis,
epithelial - to - mesenchymal transition, stem
cell - like features and drug resistance.
Moreover, ablation of a STAT5A allele reduces
tumor incidence in a mouse model of breast cancer in which mammary
epithelial cells express T antigen (48).
Cancer
cells can also migrate collectively from
epithelial tumors by wrapping around vessels or muscle fibers.
Stephen Alexander, UK - Cannabinoid receptors, transporters, endocannabinoid turnover, hydrogen sulphide turnover Arthur Christopoulos, Australia (GPCRs Liaison)- G protein - coupled receptors; analytical pharmacology; allosteric modulation; biased agonism; drug discovery; neuropharmacology John Cidlowski, USA (NHRs Liaison)- Glucocorticoid receptor signaling; apoptosis and the immune system Anthony P. Davenport, UK (Chair Evolving Pharmacology, GPCRs Liaison) Doriano Fabbro, Switzerland - Kinases and their biology, kinase inhibitors, drug discovery, pharmacology of drugs (kinase inhibitors) in the indication oncology, biology of oncology Kozo Kaibuchi, Japan Yoshikatsu Kanai, Japan - Transporters, amino acid signals,
epithelial function, cancer biology Francesca Levi - Schaffer, Israel - eosinophils and mast
cells as effector
cells in allergic inflammation: characterization of new receptors / ligands, hypoxia / angiogenesis and eosinophils, asthma, atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, immunopharmacological modulation of allergic diseases by bispecific recombinant antibodies, bacteria interactions with eosinophils and mast
cells, the allergic effector unit, mast
cell derived
tumors: new antibody based treatment, the allergic inflammation and the resolvome, non IgE - mediated mast
cell activation in diseases Eliot H. Ohlstein, USA (Editor)- Drug discovery and development, urogenital biology, cardiovascular / metabolic medicine John A. Peters, UK (LGICs Liaison) Alex Phipps, UK - Oncology, Clinical Pharmacology, Biologics and Immunotherapy Joerg Striessnig, Austria (VGICs Liaison)- Physiology, pharmacology and pathophysiological role of voltage-gated calcium channels
TGFβ inhibits
tumor initiation and progression by inducing
cell cycle arrest and apoptosis; however
epithelial tumorigenesis may escape this common antitumor mechanism by inducing aberrations in TGFβ signaling resulting in enhanced development and progression of human carcinomas.
These
cells were functionally heterogeneous, produced barrier - protective cytokines, and stimulated intestinal stromal and
epithelial cells via interleukin 17A, interferon gamma, and
tumor necrosis factor.
Interestingly, long - term — cultured human
epithelial cancer
cells in clonal cultures also form holoclones, meroclones, and paraclones, and
tumor cell holoclones have been hypothesized to harbor stem - like
cells or cancer stem
cells.
We also found that several carriage strains had lost their type IV pili and that this loss correlated with reduced
tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF - α) expression when cultured with
epithelial cells.
Carcinomas arise from
epithelial cells, and
tumor progression involves a loss of polarity, so an understanding of
cell polarity is important in the identification of novel therapeutic approaches to cancer.
Last year, Mandriota and collaborators demonstrated that in a cancer mouse model, concentrations of aluminum in the amount of those measured in the human breast are able to transform cultured mammary
epithelial cells, allowing them to form
tumors and to metastasize.
More specifically, he researches the use of anti-CEA antibodies for
tumor imaging and therapy, as well as the role of CEACAM1 in T -
cell activation and mammary
epithelial cell polarization.
Considering that miR - 142 is highly expressed in human BCSCs, but weakly expressed or undetectable in the stem / progenitor population of the mammary
epithelial cells, our result suggest that the upregulation of miR - 142 and its enhancement of the miR - 150 expression seem to be especially relevant in the breast
tumor progression in vivo.
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a malignant
tumor of the
epithelial cells of the liver.
TCC is a malignant
tumor that develops from the transitional
epithelial cells that line the bladder.
Stromal granulosa
cell,
epithelial tumors and dysgerminomas may become very large, in which case a swollen abdomen is the main sign.
Granulosa
cell and
epithelial tumors are the most common ovarian
tumors in bitches.
Typically, the
cells of benign and malignant mesenchymal
tumors have poorly - defined
cell membranes as compared to
epithelial tumors.
These categories are
epithelial tumors, mesenchymal
tumors, round
cell tumors and melanomas.
There are various types of bladder
tumors like squamous
cell carcinoma (arise in the
epithelial cells), adenocarcinoma (arise in the glandular epithelium), undifferentiated carcinoma, rhabdomyosarcoma (
tumor of the striated muscle - form of fibers combined into parallel fibers like the skeletal and the cardiac muscles), fibroma (
tumors made of fibrous or connective tissue.
It is a
tumor made up of the
epithelial cells that line the bladder wall.