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ArticleNon-coding RNA2020

How Does a Tumor Get Its Shape? MicroRNAs Act as Morphogens at the Cancer Invasion Front.

Catalin Vasilescu, Mihai Tanase, Dana Giza, Livia Procopiuc, Mihnea P Dragomir, And George A Calin

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Article in Non-coding RNA, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors.

Catalin Vasilescu"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, RO-020021 Bucharest, Romania.
Mihai TanasePolytechnic University of Bucharest, RO-060042 Bucharest, Romania.
Dana GizaDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Livia ProcopiucGuy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH, UK.
Mihnea P Dragomir"Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, RO-020021 Bucharest, Romania.
And George A CalinDepartment of Surgery, Fundeni Clinical Hospital, RO-022328 Bucharest, Romania.

Funding

Protein-coding and non-coding RNA biomarkers for early detection of CLLR01CA182905 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI ABRUZZO, LYNNE V., CALIN, GEORGE A. · 2014 to 2018
$2.9M
miR-155 targeted therapeutics for precision medicine in lung cancerR01CA222007 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI CALIN, GEORGE A., CRISTINI, VITTORIO · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
National Cancer Institute 1R01 CA182905-01National Cancer Institute 1R01CA222007-01A1National Cancer Institute 1R01GM122775-01National Institutes of Health UH3TR00943- 01U.S. Department of Defense CA160445P1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The generation and organization of the invasion front shape of neoplasms is an intriguing problem. The intimate mechanism is not yet understood, but the prevailing theory is that it represents an example of morphogenesis. Morphogenesis requires the presence of specific molecules, known as morphogens (activators and inhibitors), which can diffuse and elicit dose-dependent responses in their target cells. Due to their ability to modulate most of the coding transcriptome, their well-established role in embryogenesis, and their capacity to rapidly move between neighboring and distant cells, we propose microRNAs as inhibitors that could shape the cancer invasion front. In order to explain the genesis of the tumor border, we use Alan Turing's reaction diffusion model, refined by Meinhardt and Gierer. This assumes the existence of an activator called

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