Interplay between neural-cadherin and vascular endothelial-cadherin in breast cancer progression
2012
Introduction
Deregulation of cadherin expression, in particular the loss of epithelial (E)-cadherin and gain of neural (N)-cadherin, has been implicated in carcinoma progression. We previously showed that endothelial cell-specific vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin can be expressed aberrantly on tumor cells both in human breast cancer and in experimental mouse mammary carcinoma. Functional analyses revealed that VE-cadherin promotes tumor cell proliferation and invasion by stimulating transforming growth factor (TGF)-β signaling. Here, we investigate the functional interplay between N-cadherin and VE-cadherin in breast cancer.
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