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Current Cancer Drug Targets

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1568-0096
ISSN (Online): 1873-5576

Targeting Invasion Induction as a Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Cancer

Author(s): Donna L. Livant

Volume 5, Issue 7, 2005

Page: [489 - 503] Pages: 15

DOI: 10.2174/156800905774574002

Price: $65

Abstract

The spread of cancer cells from the primary tumor to a distant site involves many of the invasive processes normally required for wound healing, including migration through the local connective tissue, invasion of the vasculature, extravasation, invasion of the connective tissue at a distant site, and angiogenesis. Thus, the abilities of tumor cells to invade the host, and to induce endothelial cell invasion and neovascularization, are central to malignant progression. The plasminogen activator system, which plays a direct role in stimulating α5β1 integrin fibronectin receptor-mediated invasion during wound healing, is also very important in tumor cell invasion and metastasis, as well as in angiogenesis. Therefore, the α5β1 receptor and the plasminogen activator system may be promising targets for directed anticancer therapies.

Keywords: fibronectin, invasion, integrins, urokinase, metastasis


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