ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer2018
The key role of extracellular vesicles in the metastatic process.
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- Protein cargo in extracellular vesicles as the key mediator in the progression of cancer.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2024Review
- Effects of extracellular vesicle-derived noncoding RNAs on pre-metastatic niche and tumor progression.Genes & diseases · 2024Review
- Immune microenvironment in papillary thyroid carcinoma: roles of immune cells and checkpoints in disease progression and therapeutic implications.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
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- Communicator Extraordinaire: Extracellular Vesicles in the Tumor Microenvironment Are Essential Local and Long-Distance Mediators of Cancer Metastasis.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- The P2X7 Receptor in Oncogenesis and Metastatic Dissemination: New Insights on Vesicular Release and Adenosinergic Crosstalk.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Ectopic ATP synthase stimulates the secretion of extracellular vesicles in cancer cells.Communications biology · 2023Article
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- The Tricky Connection between Extracellular Vesicles and Mitochondria in Inflammatory-Related Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Extra-Cellular Vesicles Derived from Thyroid Cancer Cells Promote the Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and the Transfer of Malignant Phenotypes through Immune Mediated Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Advances in the Study of Exosomes as Drug Delivery Systems for Bone-Related Diseases.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Progress of regulatory RNA in small extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
- Delivery of human natural killer cell-derived exosomes for liver cancer therapy: an in vivo study in subcutaneous and orthotopic animal models.Drug delivery · 2022Article
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Abstract
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, have a key role in the paracrine communication between organs and compartments. EVs shuttle virtually all types of biomolecules such as proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, metabolites and even pharmacological compounds. Their ability to transfer their biomolecular cargo into target cells enables EVs to play a key role in intercellular communication that can regulate cellular functions such as proliferation, apoptosis and migration. This has led to the emergence of EVs as a key player in tumor growth and metastasis through the formation of "tumor niches" in target organs. Recent data have also been shown that EVs may transform the microenvironment of primary tumors thus favoring the selection of cancer cells with a metastatic behavior. The release of EVs from resident non-malignant cells may contribute to the metastatic processes as well. However, cancer EVs may induce malignant transformation in resident mesenchymal stem cells, suggesting that the metastatic process is not exclusively due to circulating tumor cells. In this review, we outline and discuss evidence-based roles of EVs in actively regulating multiple steps of the metastatic process and how we can leverage EVs to impair metastasis.
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