Genes involved in epithelial-mesenchymal transition in carcinomas may also play a role in migration and invasion of human glioblastoma cells
CD Kühnöl, C Würfel, MS Staege, CM Kramm · Klinische Pädiatrie · 2011 · Heft 11
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Introduction: Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important mechanism of carcinomas in change over from local tumours into infiltrating and metastasing tumours. EMT is hallmarked by key genes (e.g. SNAI1) that were partially also found in human glioblastomas (hGBM). The high potential of human glioblastoma cells to migrate and infiltrate essentially contributes to the overall poor prognosis by circumvention of effective local treatment strategies. The coherence of these key genes with tumour biological functions in glioblastomas is not yet determined. Here we describe in vitro analyses of the influence…