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An Update on Molecular Pathways Regulating Vasculogenic Mimicry in Human Osteosarcoma and Their Role in Canine Oncology

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FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.722432

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comparative oncology; dog; osteosarcoma; vasculogenic mimicry; molecular pathways

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Canine tumors serve as valuable models for researching novel biomarkers and metastasis pathways; vasculogenic mimicry, a unique property of malignant cancer cells, offers opportunities for investigating molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets related to metastasis.
Canine tumors are valuable comparative models for human counterparts, especially to explore novel biomarkers and to understand pathways and processes involved in metastasis. Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) is a unique property of malignant cancer cells which promote metastasis. Thus, it represents an opportunity to investigate both the molecular mechanisms and the therapeutic targets of a crucial phenotypic malignant switch. Although this biological process has been largely investigated in different human cancer types, including osteosarcoma, it is still largely unknown in veterinary pathology, where it has been mainly explored in canine mammary tumors. The presence of VM in human osteosarcoma is associated with poor clinical outcome, reduced patient survival, and increased risk of metastasis and it shares the main pathways involved in other type of human tumors. This review illustrates the main findings concerning the VM process in human osteosarcoma, search for the related current knowledge in canine pathology and oncology, and potential involvement of multiple pathways in VM formation, in order to provide a basis for future investigations on VM in canine tumors.

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