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Review
. 2004 Oct;5(10):816-26.
doi: 10.1038/nrm1490.

Integrin signalling during tumour progression

Wenjun Guo  1 , Filippo G Giancotti
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Review

Integrin signalling during tumour progression

Wenjun Guo et al. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2004 Oct.

Abstract

During progression from tumour growth to metastasis, specific integrin signals enable cancer cells to detach from neighbouring cells, re-orientate their polarity during migration, and survive and proliferate in foreign microenvironments. There is increasing evidence that certain integrins associate with receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) to activate signalling pathways that are necessary for tumour invasion and metastasis. The effect of these integrins might be especially important in cancer cells that have activating mutations, or amplifications, of the genes that encode these RTKs.

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