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Abstract
Metastasis, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths, underscores the critical need to understand its regulatory mechanisms to improve prevention and treatment strategies for late-stage tumors. Hematogenous dissemination is a key route of metastasis. However, as the gatekeeper of vessels, the role of pericytes in hematogenous metastasis remains largely unknown. In this review, we comprehensively explore the contributions of pericytes throughout the metastatic cascade, particularly their functions that extend beyond influencing tumor angiogenesis. Pericytes should not be perceived as passive bystanders, but rather as active participants in various stages of the metastatic cascade. Pericytes-targeted therapy may provide novel insights for preventing and treating advanced-stage tumor.
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The Official Journal of the International Society for Cellular Oncology
Focuses on translational research
Addresses the conversion of cell biology to clinical applications
Cellular Oncology publishes scientific contributions from various biomedical and clinical disciplines involved in basic and translational cancer research on the cell and tissue level, technical and bioinformatics developments in this area, and clinical applications. This includes a variety of fields like genome technology, micro-arrays and other high-throughput techniques, genomic instability, SNP, DNA methylation, signaling pathways, DNA organization, (sub)microscopic imaging, proteomics, bioinformatics, functional effects of genomics, drug design and development, molecular diagnostics and targeted cancer therapies, genotype-phenotype interactions.
A major goal is to translate the latest developments in these fields from the research laboratory into routine patient management. To this end Cellular Oncology forms a platform of scientific information exchange between molecular biologists and geneticists, technical developers, pathologists, (medical) oncologists and other clinicians involved in the management of cancer patients.
In vitro studies are preferentially supported by validations in tumor tissue with clinicopathological associations.
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