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Type I collagen receptor (alpha 2 beta 1) signaling promotes the growth of human prostate cancer cells within the bone.
Cancer research - 1 Sept 2006
Hall Christopher L, Dai JinLu, van Golen Kenneth L, Keller Evan T, Long Michael W
Abstract excerpt
The most frequent site of prostate cancer metastasis is the bone. Adhesion to bone-specific factors may facilitate the selective metastasis of prostate cancer to the skeleton. Therefore, we tested whether prostate cancer bone metastasis is mediated by binding to type I collagen, the most abundant bone protein. We observed that only bone metastatic prostate cancer cells bound collagen I, whereas cells that form...
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