The Fallacy of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition in Neoplasia2 }$ j3 }' G; ?+ v; r4 f( }4 V+ y
David Tarin2 J- F& `- d" d) h
Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California . B% h1 Q, j3 D/ o: j1 ? 0 Y7 Z. A% Y: t, _Abstract' E8 L8 Y: f. D% N& S8 ]- {
Epithelial mesenchymal transition has been postulated as a versatile mechanism which facilitates cellular repositioning and redeployment during embryonic development, tissue reconstruction after injury, carcinogenesis, and tumor metas- tasis. The hypothesis originates from parallels drawn between the morphology and behavior of locomotory and sedentary cells in vitro and in various normal and pathologic processes in vivo. This review analyzes data from several studies on embryonic development, wound healing, and the pathology of human tumors, including work from our own laboratory, to assess the validity of the proposal. It is concluded that there is no convincing evidence for conversion of epithelial cells into mesenchymal cell lineages in vivo and that the biological repertoire of normal and malignant cells is sufficient to account for the events and processes observed, without needing to invoke radical changes in cell identity. (Cancer Res 2005; 65(14): 5996-6001); J/ [0 s( f0 Q+ J, ?( u
难怪EMT在肿瘤中作用的原始文献这么难找 原来是想象出来的 ( S8 s, C2 {$ q P$ a[attach]10364[/attach]作者: marrowstem 时间: 2010-7-11 11:31
个人表示同意。在美国,病理医生一直对EMT嗤之以鼻,认为是一种假象。 % p: E8 v r& T8 Z* f zEMT有可能是Robert Weinberg杜撰出来的baby,开个玩笑。作者: flydayzhu 时间: 2010-7-11 12:12
我对《The hallmarks of cancer》这篇文章的题目嗤之以鼻。作者: Ryan 时间: 2012-11-1 07:45
What are the hallmarks of cancer? 2 v' [) S1 {& _; u" z% ^2 f% `% X' i7 M( @& m
Yuri Lazebnik0 Y3 n5 }1 W; c# C% k9 j# A- ]
% O4 S# L, j4 [ S9 VAbstract 2 o+ v: l% I, k( Z1 ]6 ?A major goal of cancer research is to understand how to counteract mechanisms that underlie the ability of cancers to kill the patient or, in other words, to be malignant. To this end, the puzzling complexity of numerous and interrelated properties of cancers was distilled 10 years ago into “six essential alterations in cell physiology that collectively dictate malignant growth: self-sufficiency in growth signals, insensitivity to growth-inhibitory (antigrowth) signals, evasion of programmed cell death (apoptosis), limitless replicative potential, sustained angiogenesis, and tissue invasion and metastasis” (Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg)1.作者: 饶冠华 时间: 2012-11-1 12:08