ArticleNature cell biology2009
Prions tunnel between cells.
Article in Nature cell biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Macrophages enhance 3D invasion in a breast cancer cell line by induction of tumor cell tunneling nanotubes.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2019Article
- Perspective on nanochannels as cellular mediators in different disease conditions.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2018Review
- Specialized Intercellular Communications via Cytonemes and Nanotubes.Annual review of cell and developmental biology · 2018Review
- Tunneling nanotubes promote intercellular mitochondria transfer followed by increased invasiveness in bladder cancer cells.Oncotarget · 2017Article
- The missing link: does tunnelling nanotube-based supercellularity provide a new understanding of chronic and lifestyle diseases?Open biology · 2016Review
- Preferential transfer of mitochondria from endothelial to cancer cells through tunneling nanotubes modulates chemoresistance.Journal of translational medicine · 2013Article
- Small misfolded Tau species are internalized via bulk endocytosis and anterogradely and retrogradely transported in neurons.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2013Article
- Trans-cellular propagation of Tau aggregation by fibrillar species.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2012Article
- Tunneling nanotubes provide a unique conduit for intercellular transfer of cellular contents in human malignant pleural mesothelioma.PloS one · 2012Article
- Intercellular transport of Oct4 in mammalian cells: a basic principle to expand a stem cell niche?PloS one · 2012Article
- To gate, or not to gate: regulatory mechanisms for intercellular protein transport and virus movement in plants.Molecular plant · 2011Review
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- An emerging role for p21-activated kinases (Paks) in viral infections.Trends in cell biology · 2010Review
- The junctions that don't fit the scheme: special symmetrical cell-cell junctions of their own kind.Cell and tissue research · 2009Review
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Abstract
Prions are abnormal isoforms of host proteins that are the infectious agents in certain mammalian neurodegenerative diseases. How prions travel from their peripheral entry sites to the brain where they cause disease is poorly understood. A new study finds that tunnelling nanotubes are important for the intercellular transfer of prions during neuroinvasion.
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