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Semaphorin-5A maintains epithelial phenotype of malignant pancreatic cancer cells.

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Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly aggressive disease, and the lethality of this disease stems from early metastatic dissemination where surgical removal cannot provide a cure. Improvement of the therapeutic outcome and overall survival of PC patients requires to understand the fundamental processes that lead to metastasis such as the gain of cellular migration ability. One such family of proteins, which are essential players of cellular migration, is Semaphorin. Previously, we have identified one of the Semaphorin family member, Semaphorin-5A (SEMA5A) to be involved in organ-specific homing during PC metastasis. We have also demonstrated that SEMA5A has a constitutive expression in PC cell lines derived from metastatic sites in comparison with low endogenous expression in the primary tumor-derived cell line. In this study, we examined whether constitutive SEMA5A expression in metastatic PC cells regulates tumor growth and metastatic potential.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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BMC cancer
Volume
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18
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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1283
Date Published
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2018
URL
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https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-018-5204-x
DOI
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10.1186/s12885-018-5204-x
Short Title
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BMC Cancer
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