Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition and Vascular Mimicry in Breast Cancer Stem Cells

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Vasculogenic mimicry (VM), a newly defined pattern of tumor microvascularization differs from angiogenesis and vasculogenesis in its noninvolvement of endothelial cells, by which highly aggressive tumor cells can form vessel-like structures themselves, because of their high plasticity. The presence of VM has been shown to be strongly associated with a poor prognosis in several types of cancer, but biological...

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