Circulating Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells are Characterized by CXCR4 and MMP26
Author(s) -
Yu Chang,
Zhiting Wang,
Xiaomei Xu,
Wei Xiang,
Xiaoying Huang
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cellular physiology and biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.486
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1421-9778
pISSN - 1015-8987
DOI - 10.1159/000430201
Subject(s) - cxcr4 , circulating tumor cell , metastasis , hepatocellular carcinoma , cancer research , medicine , primary tumor , transplantation , cancer , cancer cell , pathology , receptor , chemokine
Primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is highly invasive, and often results in an early distal metastasis resulting in poor prognosis and therapeutic outcome. Cancer cells disseminating from the tumor and entering circulation are termed circulating tumor cells (CTCs). Although substantial progress has been made to identify those CTCs in HCC, no good marker (cocktail) has so far been identified.
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