Promotion of cancer cell invasiveness and metastasis emergence caused by olfactory receptor stimulation.

Olfactory receptors (ORs) are expressed in the olfactory epithelium, where they detect odorants, but also in other tissues with additional functions. Some ORs are even overexpressed in tumor cells. In this study, we identified ORs expressed in enterochromaffin tumor cells by RT-PCR, showing that sin...

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Main Authors: Guenhaël Sanz, Isabelle Leray, Aurélie Dewaele, Julien Sobilo, Stéphanie Lerondel, Stéphan Bouet, Denise Grébert, Régine Monnerie, Edith Pajot-Augy, Lluis M Mir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885679?pdf=render