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SUBMITTER: Vo TTT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7477423 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vo Thi Thuy Tien TTT Lee Chiang-Wen CW Wu Ching-Zong CZ Liu Ju-Fang JF Lin Wei-Ning WN Chen Yuh-Lien YL Hsu Lee-Fen LF Tsai Ming-Horng MH Lee I-Ta IT
Journal of Cancer 20200818 20
Recently, many studies have indicated that ambient air particulate matter (PM) can increase the risk of oral cancer. The most common malignant tumor in the oral cavity is oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Usually, cancer cell migration/invasion is the most important cause of cancer mortality. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and MMP-9 have been shown to play important roles in regulating metastasis and the tumor microenvironment. Here, we studied the anti-cancer effects of surfactin, a cycl ...[more]