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Cell and molecular biology

This section covers all aspects of tumor biology from a molecular and cellular point of view. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, animal models, hypoxia, angiogenesis, metastasis, cellular signaling, cancer stem cells, DNA damage and repair, cell cycle and apoptosis.

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  1. Chemotherapeutics can stimulate immune antitumor response by inducing immunogenic cell death (ICD), which is activated by Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPs) like the exposure of calreticulin (CRT) on...

    Authors: José Ignácio Gonzalez Solari, Eduardo Filippi-Chiela, Emily Salles Pilar, Vitória Nunes, Esteban Alberto Gonzalez, Fabrício Figueiró, Cristiano Feijó Andrade and Fábio Klamt

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:474

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  2. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a common hematopoietic malignancy that has a high relapse rate, and the number of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in AML patients is significantly increased. The aim of this study wa...

    Authors: Yuling Wan, Congxiao Zhang, Yingxi Xu, Min Wang, Qing Rao, Haiyan Xing, Zheng Tian, Kejing Tang, Yingchang Mi, Ying Wang and Jianxiang Wang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:472

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  3. Therapeutic targeting of the androgen signaling pathway is a mainstay treatment for prostate cancer. Although initially effective, resistance to androgen targeted therapies develops followed by disease progres...

    Authors: Maxine G. B. Tran, Becky A. S. Bibby, Lingjian Yang, Franklin Lo, Anne Y. Warren, Deepa Shukla, Michelle Osborne, James Hadfield, Thomas Carroll, Rory Stark, Helen Scott, Antonio Ramos-Montoya, Charlie Massie, Patrick Maxwell, Catharine M. L. West, Ian G. Mills…

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:469

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  4. The mitochondrial fission protein, Dynamin related protein 1 (Drp1), and its upstream protein calcium/calmodulin–dependent protein kinase I (CaMKI) play a critical role in chemoresistance in ovarian cancer (OV...

    Authors: Hideaki Tsuyoshi, Makoto Orisaka, Yuko Fujita, Meshach Asare-Werehene, Benjamin K. Tsang and Yoshio Yoshida

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:467

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  5. Several physiological (fertilization, placentation, wound healing) and pathophysiological processes (infection with enveloped viruses, cancer) depend on cell fusion. In cancer it was postulated that the fusion...

    Authors: Sera Selina Fahlbusch, Silvia Keil, Jörg T. Epplen, Kurt S. Zänker and Thomas Dittmar

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:446

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  7. α-tocopherol (AT) and γ-tocotrienol (GT3) are vitamin E isoforms considered to have potential chemopreventive properties. AT has been widely studied in vitro and in clinical trials with mixed results. The late...

    Authors: Christine Moore, Victoria E. Palau, Rashid Mahboob, Janet Lightner, William Stone and Koyamangalath Krishnan

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:428

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  8. Colon cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed types of cancer with surgical resection of the tumor being the primary choice of treatment. However, the surgical stress response induced during treatment may...

    Authors: Johanne Davidsen, Stine Bull Jessen, Sara Kehlet Watt, Sylvester Larsen, Katja Dahlgaard, Tove Kirkegaard, Ismail Gögenur and Jesper T. Troelsen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:426

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  9. Pancreatic cancer remains a fatal disease. Experimental systems are needed for personalized treatment strategies, drug testing and to further understand tumor biology. Cell cultures can serve as an excellent p...

    Authors: L. Ehlen, J. Arndt, D. Treue, P. Bischoff, F. N. Loch, E. M. Hahn, K. Kotsch, F. Klauschen, K. Beyer, G. A. Margonis, M. E. Kreis and C. Kamphues

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:417

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  11. Previously, we have shown that miR-18a and miR-18b gene expression strongly correlates with high proliferation, oestrogen receptor -negativity (ER−), cytokeratin 5/6 positivity and basal-like features of breast c...

    Authors: Nina Gran Egeland, Kristin Jonsdottir, Miriam Ragle Aure, Kristine Sahlberg, Vessela N. Kristensen, Deirdre Cronin-Fenton, Ivar Skaland, Einar Gudlaugsson, Jan P. A. Baak and Emiel A. M. Janssen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:377

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  13. The cholesterol biosynthesis pathway is typically upregulated in breast cancer. The role of NAD(P)-dependent steroid dehydrogenase-like (NSDHL) gene, which is involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, in breast ca...

    Authors: So-Hyun Yoon, Hoe Suk Kim, Ryong Nam Kim, So-Youn Jung, Bok Sil Hong, Eun Ji Kang, Han-Byoel Lee, Hyeong-Gon Moon, Dong-Young Noh and Wonshik Han

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:375

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  14. The adhesion molecule, FAT4, has a tumor suppressor function with a critical role in the epithelial-to-mesenchymal-transition (EMT) and anti-malignant growth in several cancers. No study has investigated yet i...

    Authors: Shika Hanif Malgundkar, Ikram Burney, Mansour Al Moundhri, Moza Al Kalbani, Ritu Lakhtakia, Aikou Okamoto and Yahya Tamimi

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:374

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  16. Therapy targeted to the human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2) is used in combination with cytotoxic therapy in treatment of HER2+ breast cancer. Trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody that targets H...

    Authors: Meghan J. Bloom, Angela M. Jarrett, Todd A. Triplett, Anum K. Syed, Tessa Davis, Thomas E. Yankeelov and Anna G. Sorace

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:359

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  17. Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCTs) are characterised by an overall high cisplatin-sensitivity which has been linked to their continued expression of pluripotency factors. Recently, the Nodal signalling pathw...

    Authors: K. Harpelunde Poulsen, J. E. Nielsen, B. Grønkær Toft, U. N. Joensen, L. J. Rasmussen, M. Blomberg Jensen, R. T. Mitchell, A. Juul, E. Rajpert-De Meyts and A. Jørgensen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:349

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  18. The enrichment of cancer stem cell-like cells (CSCs) has been considered to be responsible for tumor progression after an initial response to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors ...

    Authors: Wenxiu Yao, Liyang Wang, Huan Huang, Xin Li, Pinjia Wang, Kun Mi, Jia Cheng, Huifen Liu, Cuirong Gu, Lingxiao Huang and Jianming Huang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:315

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  19. Persistent infection with high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPVs) is associated with the development of cervical cancer. The transforming capacity of these viruses relies on the cooperative action of the E6 and ...

    Authors: María Paula Dizanzo, Federico Marziali, Clarisse Brunet Avalos, Marina Bugnon Valdano, Santiago Leiva, Ana Laura Cavatorta and Daniela Gardiol

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:293

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  20. Solute Carrier Family 6 Member 1 (SLC6A1) has been identified as a cancer-promoting gene in various human cancers, such as clear cell renal cell carcinoma and ovarian cancer. However, its roles in prostate can...

    Authors: Chaojiang Chen, Zhiduan Cai, Yangjia Zhuo, Ming Xi, Zhuoyuan Lin, Funeng Jiang, Zezhen Liu, Yueping Wan, Yu Zheng, Jianxin Li, Xing Zhou, Jianguo Zhu and Weide Zhong

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:289

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  23. Melanoma is the most aggressive skin cancer that derived from pigment cells, accounting for the majority of the skin-cancer-related deaths. Despite great development and evolution have been made in surgery, ra...

    Authors: Fei Liu, Lanting Hu, Yi Pei, Ke Zheng, Wei Wang, Shenglong Li, Enduo Qiu, Guanning Shang, Jiaming Zhang and Xiaojing Zhang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:258

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  24. This study was designed to investigate the clinicopathologic features of pulmonary blastomatoid carcinosarcoma and explore the genomic profiles of epithelial and mesenchymal components in this tumor.

    Authors: Jikai Zhao, Chan Xiang, Ruiying Zhao, Ping Guo, Jingjing Zheng, Han Han-Zhang, Keke Yu, Jie Zhang and Yuchen Han

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:248

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  25. Treatment resistance is a major clinical challenge of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) where approximately 40% of the patients have refractory disease or relapse. Since DLBCL is characterized by great cli...

    Authors: Hanne Due, Rasmus Froberg Brøndum, Ken H. Young, Martin Bøgsted and Karen Dybkær

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:237

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  27. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common cancer and a leading cause of death worldwide. Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins regulate tumor growth and development in CRC. Elastin (ELN) is a component of ECM p...

    Authors: Jinzhi Li, Xiaoyue Xu, Yanyan Jiang, Nicole G. Hansbro, Philip M. Hansbro, Jincheng Xu and Gang Liu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:217

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  28. Na+/H+ exchanger regulatory factor 1 (NHERF1) is an important scaffold protein participates in the modulation of a variety of intracellular signal pathways. NHERF1 was able to enhance the effects of chemo-drugs i...

    Authors: Fenglian Yang, Mu Hu, Siyuan Chang, Jing Huang, Yang Si, Jinghui Wang, Shan Cheng and Wen G. Jiang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:202

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  29. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the prognostic value of total tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and subtypes of TILs (CD4+, CD8+, and FOXP3+) in triple-negative brea...

    Authors: Guoxuan Gao, Zihan Wang, Xiang Qu and Zhongtao Zhang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:179

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  31. Aberrant JAK/STAT activation has been detected in many types of human cancers. The role of JAK/STAT activation in cancer has been mostly attributed to direct transcriptional regulation of target genes by phosp...

    Authors: Pranabananda Dutta, Lin Zhang, Huijun Zhang, Qin Peng, Phillippe R. Montgrain, Yingxiao Wang, Yuanlin Song, Jinghong Li and Willis X. Li

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:145

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  32. Soluble Fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFLT1) as an anti-angiogenic factor is abundantly expressed in placental trophoblasts. Choriocarcinoma, a malignant tumor derived from trophoblasts, is known to be highly an...

    Authors: Tadashi Sasagawa, Atsushi Jinno-Oue, Takeshi Nagamatsu, Kazuki Morita, Tetsushi Tsuruga, Mayuyo Mori-Uchino, Tomoyuki Fujii and Masabumi Shibuya

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:112

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  33. TP53 mutations occur in only about 3% of primary and 10–20% of relapse B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (BCP-ALL). However, alternative mechanisms may contribute to functionally impairing the p53 pa...

    Authors: Lixian Oh, Pierre Hainaut, Sandrine Blanchet and Hany Ariffin

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:110

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  34. Increasing studies have demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in tumor progression. However, the potential biological functions and clinical importance of Linc01234 in oral sq...

    Authors: Deyu Liu, Xinchun Jian, Pu Xu, Rong Zhu and Yuan Wang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:107

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  35. Overexpression of FAT1 gene and its oncogenic effects have been reported in several cancers. Previously, we have documented upregulation of FAT1 gene in glioblastoma (GBM) tumors which was found to increase th...

    Authors: Chitrangda Srivastava, Khushboo Irshad, Yakhlesh Gupta, Chitra Sarkar, Ashish Suri, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay, Subrata Sinha and Kunzang Chosdol

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:62

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  36. Breast (BCa) and prostate (PCa) cancers are hormone receptor (HR)-driven cancers. Thus, BCa and PCa patients are given therapies that reduce hormone levels or directly block HR activity; but most patients even...

    Authors: Afshan F. Nawas, Mohammed Kanchwala, Shayna E. Thomas-Jardin, Haley Dahl, Kelly Daescu, Monica Bautista, Vanessa Anunobi, Ally Wong, Rachel Meade, Ragini Mistry, Nisha Ghatwai, Felix Bayerl, Chao Xing and Nikki A. Delk

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:46

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  37. Matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP7), as the smallest member of the matrix metalloproteinase family, has been verified to be implicated in cancer progression, especially metastasis. However, its expression patter...

    Authors: Shuo Yuan, Li-song Lin, Rui-Huan Gan, Li Huang, Xiao-ting Wu, Yong Zhao, Bo-hua Su, Dali Zheng and You-Guang Lu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:33

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  38. Vasculogenic mimicry (VM), defined as a capability of aggressive tumor Cells to mimic embryonic vasculogenic networks, caused poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Rho kinases (ROCK), p21-activated...

    Authors: Ji-Gang Zhang, He-Ming Zhou, Xue Zhang, Wan Mu, Juan-Ni Hu, Gao-Lin Liu and Qin Li

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:32

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  39. Chemo-resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major problem, and acquired drug resistance prevents cancer therapies from achieving complete responses. Molecular targeting therapy presents an opportun...

    Authors: Xia Liao, Ge Song, Zihan Xu, Yang Bu, Fan Chang, Fengan Jia, Xuelian Xiao, Xuejiao Ren, Mei Zhang and Qingan Jia

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:31

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  40. Pyroptosis belongs to a novel inflammatory programmed cell death pathway, with the possible prognosis of endometrial cancer related to the terminal protein GSDMD. Hydrogen exerts a biphasic effect on cancer by...

    Authors: Ye Yang, Ping Yin Liu, Wei Bao, Song Jun Chen, Fang Su Wu and Ping Ya Zhu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:28

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  41. Ewing sarcoma is a malignancy of primitive cells, possibly of mesenchymal origin. It is probable that genetic perturbations other than EWS-FLI1 cooperate with it to produce the tumor. Sequencing studies identifie...

    Authors: Marc El Beaino, Jiayong Liu, Amanda R. Wasylishen, Rasoul Pourebrahim, Agata Migut, Bryan J. Bessellieu, Ke Huang and Patrick P. Lin

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2020 20:3

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  42. Cell adhesion-mediated drug resistance (CAM-DR) is a major clinical problem that prevents successful treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). In particular, the expression levels of integrin β1 and its sub-cellular...

    Authors: Yuejiao Huang, Xianting Huang, Chun Cheng, Xiaohong Xu, Hong Liu, Xiaojing Yang, Li Yao, Zongmei Ding, Jie Tang, Song He and Yuchan Wang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1269

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  43. Invasive mammary carcinomas that spontaneously develop in female cats are associated with high mortality, and resemble the most aggressive human breast cancers, especially triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)....

    Authors: Elie Dagher, Violette Royer, Paul Buchet, Jérôme Abadie, Delphine Loussouarn, Mario Campone and Frédérique Nguyen

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1267

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  44. The clinical significance of hematogenous and lymphatic metastasis in ovarian cancer has been increasingly addressed, as it plays an imperative role in the formation of both intraperitoneal and distant metasta...

    Authors: Huiran Yue, Jieyu Wang, Ruifang Chen, Xiaoman Hou, Jun Li and Xin Lu

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1266

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  45. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is a fatal disease with poor prognosis. The predominant reason for ESCC-related death is distal metastasis. A comprehensive understanding of the molecular mechanism un...

    Authors: Yanan Jiang, Jing Zhang, Jimin Zhao, Zhenzhen Li, Hanyong Chen, Yan Qiao, Xinhuan Chen, Kangdong Liu and Ziming Dong

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1264

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  46. Nimotuzumab (NTZ) is an anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody. However,the effect of targeted drugs combined with induction therapy in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma remains unclear. The aim of this study i...

    Authors: Ying Lu, Dagui Chen, Jinhui Liang, Jianquan Gao, Zhanxiong Luo, Rensheng Wang, Wenqi Liu, Changjie Huang, Xuejian Ning, Meilian Liu and Haixin Huang

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1262

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  47. Bag-1 (Bcl-2-associated athanogene) is a multifunctional anti-apoptotic protein frequently overexpressed in cancer. Bag-1 interacts with a variety of cellular targets including Hsp70/Hsc70 chaperones, Bcl-2, n...

    Authors: Tugba Kizilboga, Emine Arzu Baskale, Jale Yildiz, Izzet Mehmet Akcay, Ebru Zemheri, Nisan Denizce Can, Can Ozden, Salih Demir, Fikret Ezberci and Gizem Dinler-Doganay

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1254

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  48. Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a malignancy of myeloid precursor cells that arise from genomic alterations in the expression of key growth regulatory genes causing cells to assume an undifferentiated state an...

    Authors: Justin J. Montoya, Megan A. Turnidge, Daniel H. Wai, Apurvi R. Patel, David W. Lee, Vijay Gokhale, Laurence H. Hurley, Robert J. Arceci, Cynthia Wetmore and David O. Azorsa

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1251

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  49. Cell cycle analysis is important for cancer research. However, available methodologies have drawbacks including limited categorisation and reliance on fixation, staining or transformation. Multispectral analys...

    Authors: Jared M. Campbell, Abbas Habibalahi, Saabah Mahbub, Martin Gosnell, Ayad G. Anwer, Sharon Paton, Stan Gronthos and Ewa Goldys

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1242

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  50. Tumor angiogenesis is vital for tumor growth. Recent evidence indicated that bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) can migrate to tumor sites and exert critical effects on tumor growth through dir...

    Authors: Chao Sun, Xingliang Dai, Dongliang Zhao, Haiyang Wang, Xiaoci Rong, Qiang Huang and Qing Lan

    Citation: BMC Cancer 2019 19:1240

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