ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2024
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis.
Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.
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112 citing papers in PubMed, 151 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Mechanical memory as a metastatic compass: a comparative framework for understanding organotropism through biophysical priming.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2026Review
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- Biofabrication and artificial intelligence strategies for investigating solid- and fluid-pressure mechanobiology in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2026Review
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- Matrix Stiffness Directs Stemness Signatures in Breast Cancer.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Article
- From force to fate: Implications of mechanomemory in lung disease.Respiratory research · 2026Review
- Targeting the Calcineurin Homologous Protein 1 (CHP1)-Transmembrane Protein 87A (TMEM87A) mechanosensing complex: a druggable vulnerability in metastatic ovarian cancer.Molecular biomedicine · 2026Article
- Nanoparticles reach metastatic tumours via enhanced permeability of adjacent vessels.Nature nanotechnology · 2026Article
- Decoupling Mechanical Confinement and Fibrotic Extracellular Matrix Signaling in Vestibular Schwannoma Using Tunable 3D Hydrogels.Cellular and molecular bioengineering · 2026Article
- The mechano-immunological landscape in the tumor microenvironment: From mechanical sensing to a new therapeutic paradigm.Materials today. Bio · 2026Review
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- Nuclear Mechanotransduction Across the Metastatic Cascade: Decoding Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Cancer Dissemination.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Cell Mechanics in Cancer: Integrating Mechanotransduction Pathways Within the Tumor Microenvironment.Journal of cellular physiology · 2026Review
- [Research advances of magnetic resonance elastography for assessing the bioinvasiveness in hepatocellular carcinoma].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2026Review
- Single-cell transcriptomics identify mechanical-memory-associated cell states in metastatic HRBreast cancer research : BCR · 2026Article
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Abstract
Metastasis causes most cancer-related deaths; however, the efficacy of anti-metastatic drugs is limited by incomplete understanding of the biological mechanisms that drive metastasis. Focusing on the mechanics of metastasis, we propose that the ability of tumour cells to survive the metastatic process is enhanced by mechanical stresses in the primary tumour microenvironment that select for well-adapted cells. In this Perspective, we suggest that biophysical adaptations favourable for metastasis are retained via mechanical memory, such that the extent of memory is influenced by both the magnitude and duration of the mechanical stress. Among the mechanical cues present in the primary tumour microenvironment, we focus on high matrix stiffness to illustrate how it alters tumour cell proliferation, survival, secretion of molecular factors, force generation, deformability, migration and invasion. We particularly centre our discussion on potential mechanisms of mechanical memory formation and retention via mechanotransduction and persistent epigenetic changes. Indeed, we propose that the biophysical adaptations that are induced by this process are retained throughout the metastatic process to improve tumour cell extravasation, survival and colonization in the distant organ. Deciphering mechanical memory mechanisms will be key to discovering a new class of anti-metastatic drugs.
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