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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 181, 期 4, 页码 1115-1125出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.07.013
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- National Institutes of Health [NIH NCI R03-CA83137, R37-CA59702, R01-CA121205, R01-CA80318, R01-CA88043, U54-CA143869]
In 1999, The American Journal of Pathology published an article entitled Vascular Channel Formation by Human Melanoma Cells in Vivo and in Vitro: Vasculogenic Mimicry, by Maniotis and colleagues, which ignited a spirited debate for several years and earned distinction as a citation classic. Tumor cell vasculogenic mimicry (VM) refers to the plasticity of aggressive cancer cells forming de novo vascular networks, which thereby contribute to perfusion of rapidly growing tumors, transporting fluid from leaky vessels, and/or connecting with the constitutional endothelial-lined vasculature. The tumor cells capable of VM share a plastic, transendothelial phenotype, which may be induced by hypoxia. Since VM was introduced as a novel paradigm for melanoma tumor perfusion, many studies have contributed new findings illuminating the underlying molecular pathways supporting VM in a variety of tumors, including carcinomas, sarcomas, glioblastomas, astrocytomas, and melanomas. Facilitating the functional plasticity of tumor cell VM are key proteins associated with vascular, stem cell, and hypoxia-related signaling pathways, each deserving serious consideration as potential therapeutic targets and diagnostic indicators of the aggressive, metastatic phenotype. (Am J Pathol 2012, 181:1115-1125; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.07.013)
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