Mechanical Entrapment Is Insufficient and Intercellular Adhesion Is Essential for Metastatic Cell Arrest in Distant Organs
In this report, we challenge a common perception that tumor embolism is a size-limited event of mechanical arrest, occurring in the first capillary bed encountered by blood-borne metastatic cells. We tested the hypothesis that mechanical entrapment alone, in the absence of tumor cell adhesion to blo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2005-05-01
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| Series: | Neoplasia: An International Journal for Oncology Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1476558605800582 |