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SUBMITTER: Charles Jacob HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8198339 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Charles Jacob Harrys Kishore HK Charles Richard John Lalith JL Signorelli Rossana R Kashuv Tyler T Lavania Shweta S Vaish Utpreksha U Boopathy Ranjitha R Middleton Ashley A Boone Melinda Minucci MM Sundaram Ramakrishnan R Dudeja Vikas V Saluja Ashok Kumar AK
Cancers 20210531 11
Tumor cells dissociate from the primary site and enter into systemic circulation (circulating tumor cells, CTCs) either alone or as tumor microemboli (clusters); the latter having an increased predisposition towards forming distal metastases than single CTCs. The formation of clusters is, in part, created by contacts between cell-cell junction proteins and/or cytokine receptor pairs with other cells such as neutrophils, platelets, fibroblasts, etc. In the present study, we provide evidence for a ...[more]