PARAMETERS OF EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION AS PREDICTORS OF CANCER AGGRESSIVENESS

S. DINICOLA, R. VERNA, A. CUCINA, M. BIZZARRI

Article ID: 6490
Vol 32, Issue 4S1, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/jbrha6490
Received: 8 September 2018; Accepted: 8 September 2018; Available online: 8 September 2018; Issue release: 8 September 2018

Abstract

Cancer cell transition from a low-invasive phenotype into a more malignant one constitutes a criticalevent during tumor progression. The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) occurring in solid cancersis at the core of such transformation. A recurrent metaphor for the complex developmental path of cellsystems across different phenotypic states is given by the Waddington landscape in which cell phenotypesare depicted as stable attractors, while metastable or unstable states represent unstable attractors.



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