Hypoxia stimulates the EMT of gastric cancer cells through autocrine TGFβ signaling.

Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) is considered to be correlated with malignancy of cancer cells and responsible for cancer invasion and metastasis. We previously reported that distant metastasis was associated with hypoxia in gastric cancer. We therefore investigated the effect of hypoxic con...

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Main Authors: Junko Matsuoka, Masakazu Yashiro, Yosuke Doi, Yuhiko Fuyuhiro, Yukihiro Kato, Osamu Shinto, Satoru Noda, Shinichiro Kashiwagi, Naoki Aomatsu, Toshiki Hirakawa, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Shimizu, Toshiyuki Shimizu, Atsushi Miwa, Nobuya Yamada, Tetsuji Sawada, Kosei Hirakawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3656884?pdf=render