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  1. Hepatic fibrosis is a pathological response of the liver to a variety of chronic stimuli. Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the major source of myofibroblasts in the liver. Follistatin like 1 (Fstl1) is a secr...

    Authors: Xin-Yi Xu, Yan Du, Xue Liu, Yilin Ren, Yingying Dong, Hong-Yu Xu, Jin-Song Shi, Dianhua Jiang, Xin Xu, Lian Li, Zheng-Hong Xu and Yan Geng

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:151

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  2. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles characterized by their size, source, release mechanism and contents. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single stranded non-coding RNAs transcribed from DNA. Exosomes and miRNAs are wid...

    Authors: Kasra Asgarpour, Zahra Shojaei, Fatemeh Amiri, Jafar Ai, Maryam Mahjoubin-Tehran, Faezeh Ghasemi, Reza ArefNezhad, Michael R. Hamblin and Hamed Mirzaei

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:149

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  3. LOX-like 1 (LOXL1) is a lysyl oxidase, and emerging evidence has revealed its effect on malignant cancer progression. However, its role in colorectal cancer (CRC) and the underlying molecular mechanisms have n...

    Authors: Lin Hu, Jing Wang, Yunliang Wang, Linpeng Wu, Chao Wu, Bo Mao, E. Maruthi Prasad, Yuhong Wang and Y. Eugene Chin

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:148

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  4. Deficiency of mitochondrial sirtuin 3 (SIRT3), a NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase that maintains redox status and lipid homeostasis, contributes to hepatic steatosis. In this study, we investigated additional m...

    Authors: Emma Barroso, Rosalía Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Mohammad Zarei, Javier Pizarro-Degado, Anna Planavila, Xavier Palomer, Francesc Villarroya and Manuel Vázquez-Carrera

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:147

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  7. Lung cancer is the second most commonly occurring cancer. The ability to metastasize and spread to distant locations renders the tumor more aggressive. Members of the Rho subfamily of small GTP-binding protein...

    Authors: Maria Al Haddad, Rayane El-Rif, Samer Hanna, Leila Jaafar, Rayanne Dennaoui, Sandra Abdellatef, Veronika Miskolci, Dianne Cox, Louis Hodgson and Mirvat El-Sibai

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:144

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  8. Mesenchymal-like stemness is characterized by epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Breast cancer (BC) cell mesenchymal-like stemness is responsible for distal lung metastasis. Interrogation of databases sh...

    Authors: Ping Yin, Yu Bai, Zhuo Wang, Yu Sun, Jian Gao, Lei Na, Zhongbo Zhang, Wei Wang and Chenghai Zhao

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:143

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  9. Inhibitors targeting immune checkpoint were proved effective in cancer immunotherapy, such as PD-1/PD-L1 blockade. The novel immune checkpoint TIGIT/PVR plays critical roles in suppressing the anti-tumor effec...

    Authors: Xiuman Zhou, Jiangfeng Du, Hongfei Wang, Chunxia Chen, Ling Jiao, Xiangrui Cheng, Xiaowen Zhou, Shaomeng Chen, Shanshan Gou, Wenshan Zhao, Wenjie Zhai, Junhui Chen and Yanfeng Gao

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:142

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  10. Low molecular weight carrageenan (Cg) is a seaweed-derived sulfated polysaccharide widely used as inflammatory stimulus in preclinical studies. However, the molecular mechanisms of Cg-induced inflammation are ...

    Authors: Alexandre H. Lopes, Rangel L. Silva, Miriam D. Fonseca, Francisco I. Gomes, Alexandre G. Maganin, Lucas S. Ribeiro, Lucas Maciel Mauriz Marques, Fernando Q. Cunha, Jose C. Alves-Filho, Dario S. Zamboni, Norberto P. Lopes, Bernardo S. Franklin, Aurélie Gombault, Fernando Silva Ramalho, Valerie F. J. Quesniaux, Isabelle Couillin…

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:141

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  11. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD)-mediated liver disease is a toxic “gain-of-function” inflammation in the liver associated with intracellular retention of mutant alpha-1 antitrypsin. The clinical presenta...

    Authors: Nazli Khodayari, Regina Oshins, L. Shannon Holliday, Virginia Clark, Qiang Xiao, George Marek, Borna Mehrad and Mark Brantly

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:140

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  12. Venous malformations (VMs), most of which associated with activating mutations in the endothelial cells (ECs) tyrosine kinase receptor TIE2, are characterized by dilated and immature veins with scarce smooth m...

    Authors: Yameng Si, Jiadong Huang, Xiang Li, Yu Fu, Rongyao Xu, Yifei Du, Jie Cheng and Hongbing Jiang

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:139

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  13. Polycystin-2 (TRPP2) is a Ca2+ permeable nonselective cationic channel essential for maintaining physiological function in live cells. Stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) is an important Ca2+ sensor in store-o...

    Authors: Jizheng Guo, Ren Zhao, Muyao Zhou, Jie Li, Xiaoqiang Yao, Juan Du, Jiexia Chen and Bing Shen

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:138

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  14. The serine/threonine phosphatase calcineurin acts as a crucial connection between calcium signaling the phosphorylation states of numerous important substrates. These substrates include, but are not limited to...

    Authors: Trevor P. Creamer

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:137

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  15. Metabolites produced via traditional biochemical processes affect intracellular communication, inflammation, and malignancy. Unexpectedly, acetyl-CoA, α-ketoglutarate and palmitic acid, which are chemical spec...

    Authors: Ioannis Skalidis, Christian Tüting and Panagiotis L. Kastritis

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:136

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  16. Glioma stem cells (GSCs) are glioma cells with stemness and are responsible for a variety of malignant behaviors of glioma. Evidence has shown that signals from tumor microenvironment (TME) enhance stemness of...

    Authors: Jian Zang, Min-Hua Zheng, Xiu-Li Cao, Yi-Zhe Zhang, Yu-Fei Zhang, Xiang-Yu Gao, Yuan Cao, Mei Shi, Hua Han and Liang Liang

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:135

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  17. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) immunotherapy utilizes genetically-engineered immune cells that express a unique cell surface receptor that combines tumor antigen specificity with immune cell activation. In re...

    Authors: Dongfang Liu, Saiaditya Badeti, Gianpietro Dotti, Jie-gen Jiang, He Wang, James Dermody, Patricia Soteropoulos, Deanna Streck, Raymond B. Birge and Chen Liu

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:134

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  19. Class 1 cytokine receptors (C1CRs) are single-pass transmembrane proteins responsible for transmitting signals between the outside and the inside of cells. Remarkably, they orchestrate key biological processes...

    Authors: Pernille Seiffert, Katrine Bugge, Mads Nygaard, Gitte W. Haxholm, Jacob H. Martinsen, Martin N. Pedersen, Lise Arleth, Wouter Boomsma and Birthe B. Kragelund

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:132

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  20. Metabolic reprogramming, in which energetic metabolism changes from oxidative phosphorylation to glycolysis, is well-accepted as a hallmark of cancers including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A growing body o...

    Authors: Chuanzong Zhao, Ben Wang, Enyu Liu and Zongli Zhang

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:131

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  21. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles containing a variety of biological molecules including microRNAs (miRNAs). We have recently demonstrated that certain miRNA species are selectively and highly enriched in pa...

    Authors: Yi-Fan Xu, Xiaohui Xu, Amy Gin, Jean D. Nshimiyimana, Blaine H. M. Mooers, Massimo Caputi, Bethany N. Hannafon and Wei-Qun Ding

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:130

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  22. Syndecans regulate cell migration thus having key roles in scarring and wound healing processes. Our previous results have shown that Thy-1/CD90 can engage both αvβ3 integrin and Syndecan-4 expressed on the su...

    Authors: Alejandra Valdivia, Areli Cárdenas, Marianne Brenet, Horacio Maldonado, Milene Kong, Jorge Díaz, Keith Burridge, Pascal Schneider, Alejandra San Martín, Rafael García-Mata, Andrew F. G. Quest and Lisette Leyton

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:129

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  23. The activation of the NF-κB pathway plays a crucial role in the progression of breast cancer (BCa) and also involved in endocrine therapy resistance. On the contrary to the canonical NF-κB pathway, the effect ...

    Authors: Mei Wang, Yanyan Zhang, Zhi Xu, Peipei Qian, Wenbo Sun, Xiumei Wang, Zhang Jian, Tiansong Xia, Yong Xu and Jinhai Tang

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:128

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  24. Bladder cancer (BCa) is a frequent urothelial malignancy with a high ratio of morbidity and mortality. Various genetic and environmental factors are involved in BCa progression. Since, majority of BCa cases ar...

    Authors: Amir Sadra Zangouei, Amir Hossein Barjasteh, Hamid Reza Rahimi, Majid Mojarrad and Meysam Moghbeli

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:127

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  25. Current pharmacological therapies and treatments targeting pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) have proven ineffective, far too often. Therefore, there is an urgent need for alternative therapeutic approa...

    Authors: Dexter L. Puckett, Mohammed Alquraishi, Dina Alani, Samah Chahed, Dallas Donohoe, Brynn Voy, Jay Whelan and Ahmed Bettaieb

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:126

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  26. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Xiao-xiao Zuo, Ya Yang, Yue Zhang, Zhi-gang Zhang, Xiao-fei Wang and Yong-gang Shi

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:125

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    The original article was published in Cell Communication and Signaling 2019 17:142

  27. The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a combination of cardiovascular risk-factors, including obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance. MetS may induce senescence in mesenchymal stem/stromal cel...

    Authors: Yongxin Li, Yu Meng, Xiangyang Zhu, Ishran M. Saadiq, Kyra L. Jordan, Alfonso Eirin and Lilach O. Lerman

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:124

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:171

  28. Neurodegeneration is a representative phenotype of patients with chronic alcoholism. Ethanol-induced calcium overload causes NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome formation and an imbalance in mitoc...

    Authors: Jae Ryong Lim, Hyun Jik Lee, Young Hyun Jung, Jun Sung Kim, Chang Woo Chae, Seo Yihl Kim and Ho Jae Han

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:123

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  29. Multivesicular bodies (MVBs) are endosome organelles that are gradually attracting research attention. Initially, MVBs were considered as important components of the endosomal-lysosomal degradation pathway. In...

    Authors: Xueqiang Peng, Liang Yang, Yingbo Ma, Yan Li and Hangyu Li

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:122

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  30. The PIM family kinases promote cancer cell survival and motility as well as metastatic growth in various types of cancer. We have previously identified several PIM substrates, which support cancer cell migrati...

    Authors: Niina M. Santio, Veera Vainio, Tuuli Hoikkala, Kwan Long Mung, Mirka Lång, Riitta Vahakoski, Justyna Zdrojewska, Eleanor T. Coffey, Elena Kremneva, Eeva-Marja Rainio and Päivi J. Koskinen

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:121

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  31. Malignant gliomas are the most common and deadly type of central nervous system tumors. Despite some advances in treatment, the mean survival time remains only about 1.25 years. Even after surgery, radiotherap...

    Authors: Amir B. Ghaemmaghami, Maryam Mahjoubin-Tehran, Ahmad Movahedpour, Korosh Morshedi, Amirhossein Sheida, Seyed Pouya Taghavi, Hamed Mirzaei and Michael R. Hamblin

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:120

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  32. Exosomes have been considered as novel and potent vehicles of intercellular communication, instead of “cell dust”. Exosomes are consistent with anucleate cells, and organelles with lipid bilayer consisting of ...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Neng Zhu, Tao Yan, Ya-Ning Shi, Jing Chen, Chan-Juan Zhang, Xue-Jiao Xie, Duan-Fang Liao and Li Qin

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:119

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  33. The term mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) designates an assorted cell population comprised of stem cells, progenitor cells, fibroblasts, and stromal cells. MSCs contribute to the homeostatic maintenance of man...

    Authors: Serife Ayaz-Guner, Nicola Alessio, Mustafa B. Acar, Domenico Aprile, Servet Özcan, Giovanni Di Bernardo, Gianfranco Peluso and Umberto Galderisi

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:118

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  34. Estrogen receptor α (ERα) has been suggested to regulate anti-inflammatory signaling in brain microglia, the only resident immune cells in the brain. ERα conserves the phosphorylation motif at Ser216 within th...

    Authors: Sawako Shindo, Shih-Heng Chen, Saki Gotoh, Kosuke Yokobori, Hao Hu, Manas Ray, Rick Moore, Kiyoshi Nagata, Jennifer Martinez, Jau-Shyong Hong and Masahiko Negishi

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:117

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  35. Aberrant activation of the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is frequently observed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), nevertheless, the precise molecular mechanism remains unclear. Forkhead box M1 (FOXM1), a ta...

    Authors: Yiting Wang, Hailong Wang, Zhengwei Yan, Guohua Li, Guohui Hu, Hong Zhang, Dengliang Huang, Yao Wang, Xiang Zhang, Yehong Yan, Quqin Lu, Minzhang Cheng and Shiwen Luo

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:116

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  36. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is associated with resistance to anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibodies (both acquired and intrinsic), owing to the amplification or mutation of the KRAS oncogene. However...

    Authors: Hua Ye, Yi Liu, Kefeng Wu, Hui Luo and Liao Cui

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:115

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  38. Progression of Colorectal cancer (CRC) is influenced by single or compounded environmental factors. Accumulating evidence shows that microbiota can influence the outcome of cancer immunotherapy. T cell, one of...

    Authors: Hua Sui, Lu Zhang, Kaijuan Gu, Ni Chai, Qing Ji, Lihong Zhou, Yan Wang, Junze Ren, Limei Yang, Bimeng Zhang, Jing Hu and Qi Li

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:113

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  39. Many cancers evade immune surveillance by overexpressing PD-L1. PD-L1 interacted with its receptor PD-1, resulting in reduction of T cell proliferation and activation and thereafter cancer cell death mediated ...

    Authors: Yu Wang, Qingguo Sun, Ning Mu, Xiaoyang Sun, Yingying Wang, Songqing Fan, Ling Su and Xiangguo Liu

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:112

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  40. Cells taken from mouse embryos before sex differentiation respond to insults according to their chromosomal sex, a difference traceable to differential methylation. We evaluated the mechanism for this differen...

    Authors: Carlos G. Penaloza, Mayra Cruz, Gabrielle Germain, Sidra Jabeen, Mohammad Javdan, Richard A. Lockshin and Zahra Zakeri

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:111

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  41. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) are both reversible processes, and regulation of phenotypical transition is very important for progression of several c...

    Authors: Hande Topel, Ezgi Bagirsakci, Dehan Comez, Gulsun Bagci, Gulcin Cakan-Akdogan and Nese Atabey

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:110

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  43. The pre-implantation embryo in a competent status and post-implantation fully differentiation of the inner cell mass (ICM) and trophectoderm (TE) are prerequisites of successful implantation. Type I embryonic ...

    Authors: Qian Li, Juanzi Shi and Weimin Liu

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:108

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  44. Foxp3+CD4+ regulatory T cells (Treg) constitutes a key event in autoimmune diseases. STAT5b is the critical link between the IL-2/15 and FOXP3, the master regulator of Treg cells.

    Authors: Yuan Xiang, Jun Wang, Jia Peng Li, Wei Guo, Feng Huang, Hui Min Zhang, Han Han Li, Zhou Tong Dai, Zi Jian Zhang, Hui Li, Le Yuan Bao, Chao Jiang Gu, Kun Chen, Tong Cun Zhang and Xing Hua Liao

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:107

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  45. Although Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) have a prominent ability to suppress the immune responses of T lymphocytes and propel tumor immune escape, a lack of profound systemic immunesuppression in tum...

    Authors: Yingying Gao, Haoyu Xu, Nan Li, Hexi Wang, Lei Ma, Shiyou Chen, Jiayu Liu, Yongbo Zheng and Yao Zhang

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:106

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  46. In the setting of diabetes mellitus, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are important pathogenic mechanisms causing end organ damage, including diabetic kidney disease (DKD), but mechanistic unders...

    Authors: Gabriella A. Casalena, Liping Yu, Roberto Gil, Samuel Rodriguez, Shantel Sosa, William Janssen, Evren U. Azeloglu, Jeremy S. Leventhal and Ilse S. Daehn

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:105

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  47. Sepsis is an infection-induced aggressive and life-threatening organ dysfunction with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Infection-associated inflammation and coagulation promote the progression of advers...

    Authors: Shunyao Xu, Xiaojun Pan, Lingjie Mao, Hao Pan, Wenwei Xu, Yufeng Hu, Xueshu Yu, Zhiqiang Chen, Songzan Qian, Yincai Ye, Yueyue Huang and Jingye Pan

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:104

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  48. We previously demonstrated that ovarian high grade serous carcinomas (OHGSeCa) and ovarian clear cell carcinomas (OCCCa) with an HNF-1β+/p53+/ARID1A+ immunophenotype were associated with the worst unfavorable ...

    Authors: Ako Yokoi, Toshihide Matsumoto, Yasuko Oguri, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Masataka Tochimoto, Mayu Nakagawa and Makoto Saegusa

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:103

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  49. Wnt signaling drives epithelial self-renewal and disease progression in human colonic epithelium and colorectal cancer (CRC). Characterization of Wnt effector pathways is key for our understanding of these pro...

    Authors: Vanessa Dietinger, Cira R. García de Durango, Svenja Wiechmann, Sophie L. Boos, Marlies Michl, Jens Neumann, Heiko Hermeking, Bernhard Kuster and Peter Jung

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:102

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  50. Not merely the onset of immune evasion, but other factors, such as acidosis and fibrosis, are also major barriers in cancer therapeutics. Dense fibrosis is a hallmark of pancreatic ductal carcinoma (PDAC), in ...

    Authors: Akio Tsutaho, Ari Hashimoto, Shigeru Hashimoto, Soichiro Hata, Shion Kachi, Satoshi Hirano and Hisataka Sabe

    Citation: Cell Communication and Signaling 2020 18:101

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