Journal
CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL METASTASIS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 31-43Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022590402748
Keywords
metastasis; free radicals; acidosis; hypoxia; signal transduction
Categories
Funding
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [P30CA016672] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [CA 16672-23] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The presence of activated oncogenes and/or inactivated tumor suppressor genes may result in constitutive activation of multiple transcription factors. This may be especially true in the early stages of tumor development. At advanced stages, however, uncontrolled tumor growth and the consequent development of a stress microenvironment, such as hypoxia, acidosis, and free radical overproduction, may further alter the activity of these transcription factors. Abnormal activation of and interplay between these factors lead to aberrant expression of multiple metastasis-related proteins and confer a tremendous survival and growth advantage to emerging metastatic variants. Understanding the expression and regulation of these molecules may shed more light on the biology of cancer metastasis as well as suggest new preventive and therapeutic approaches.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available