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Mature and progenitor endothelial cells perform angiogenesis also under protease inhibition: the amoeboid angiogenesis.
Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR - 3 Apr 2018
Chillà Anastasia, Margheri Francesca, Biagioni Alessio, Del Rosso Mario, Fibbi Gabriella, Laurenzana Anna
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Controlling vascular growth is a challenging aim for the inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis. The amoeboid and mesenchymal types of invasiveness are two modes of migration interchangeable in cancer cells: the Rac-dependent mesenchymal migration requires the activity of proteases; the Rho-ROCK-dependent amoeboid motility is protease-independent and has never been described in endothelial cells....
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