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Tie2/TEK modulates the interaction of glioma and brain tumor stem cells with endothelial cells and promotes an invasive phenotype.
Oncotarget - 1 Dec 2010
Liu Dan, Martin Vanesa, Fueyo Juan, Lee Ok-Hee, Xu Jing, Cortes-Santiago Nahir, Alonso Marta M, Aldape Kenneth, Colman Howard, Gomez-Manzano Candelaria
Abstract excerpt
Malignant gliomas are the prototype of highly infiltrative tumors and this characteristic is the main factor for the inevitable tumor recurrence and short survival after most aggressive therapies. The aberrant communication between glioma cells and tumor microenvironment represents one of the major factors regulating brain tumor dispersal. Our group has previously reported that the tyrosine kinase receptor...
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