ArticleBioMed research international2018
Hypoxia Enhances Fusion of Oral Squamous Carcinoma Cells and Epithelial Cells Partly via the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition of Epithelial Cells.
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- Implications of Heterotypic Cell Fusion in Cancer.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- How Do Cancer Cells Fuse and Why?Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Cell Fusion and Syncytia Formation in Cancer.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2024Review
- Mechanisms of Cell Fusion in Cancer.Results and problems in cell differentiation · 2024Review
- Synthetic circuits based on split Cas9 to detect cellular events.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Extracellular Events Involved in Cancer Cell-Cell Fusion.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- The role of long noncoding RNAs as regulators of the epithelial-Mesenchymal transition process in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Review
- Construction of a combined hypoxia and EMT index for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
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- Cell fusion in cancer hallmarks: Current research status and future indications.Oncology letters · 2021Review
- Intersecting Mechanisms of Hypoxia and Prostaglandin E2-Mediated Inflammation in the Comparative Biology of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Review
- Emerging functions and clinical applications of exosomes in human oral diseases.Cell & bioscience · 2020Review
- A Novel Multimodal NIR-II Nanoprobe for the Detection of Metastatic Lymph Nodes and Targeting Chemo-Photothermal Therapy in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Theranostics · 2019Article
- Tumor Microenvironment and Cell Fusion.BioMed research international · 2019Review
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Abstract
Increasing evidence and indications showed that cell fusion is crucial in tumor development and metastasis, and hypoxia, a closely linked factor to tumor microenvironment, which can lead to EMT, induces angiogenesis and metastasis in tumor growth. However, the relationship between hypoxia and fusion has not been reported yet. EMT will change some proteins in the epithelial cell surface and the changes of proteins in cell surface may increase cell fusion. This study found that hypoxia promotes the spontaneous cell fusion between Oral Squamous Carcinoma Cells (OSCCs) and Human Immortalized Oral Epithelial Cells (HIOECs). At the same time, Hypoxia can lead to EMT, and hypoxia-pretreated HIOECs increased fusion rate with OSCC, while the fusion rate was significantly reduced by DAPT, a kind of EMT blocker. Therefore, epithelial cells can increase spontaneously cell fusion with OSCC by EMT. Our study may provide a new insight to link among tumor microenvironment, cell fusion, and cancer.
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