ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2024
Compressive stresses in cancer: characterization and implications for tumour progression and treatment.
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 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The rise and evolution of cancer mechanobiology: a bibliometric trajectory of three decades of research.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- Lipid remodeling enables adaptation to chronic hyperosmotic stress.The Journal of cell biology · 2026Article
- Transient Cytoskeletal Anisotropy Encodes Short-Term Mechanical Memory in Glioblastoma Cells.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
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- Understanding and targeting the tumour matrisome.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026Review
- Advances in research on layered double hydroxides for biomedical applications.Smart molecules : open access · 2026Review
- Cancer pain.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Biofabrication and artificial intelligence strategies for investigating solid- and fluid-pressure mechanobiology in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2026Review
- Lysyl oxidase (LOX) family proteins in extracellular matrix homeostasis: roles in disease and radiation-induced pathogenesis.Molecular biology reports · 2026Review
- Revealing biomechanical vulnerabilities in oral cancer cells using 3D coculture platform and low-frequency ultrasound.Materials today. Bio · 2026Article
- Substrate stiffness regulates HIF-1α signalling via β1-integrin/myosin-2/NF-κB axis.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- Hydrostatic pressure reduces the mechanosensitivity of cell migration.Science advances · 2026Article
- In Silico Identification of Conserved 'Fungal Islands' in Human Septin9: Evidence for Atavistic Therapeutic Targets.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Fibronectin 1 mediates pressure-induced aggressive phenotypes in colorectal cancer cells and cancer stem cells.Cancer cell international · 2026Article
- IL4I1+ macrophages drive hepatocellular carcinoma progression by responding to biomechanical cues.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2026Article
- The mechano-immunological landscape in the tumor microenvironment: From mechanical sensing to a new therapeutic paradigm.Materials today. Bio · 2026Review
- Mechanical regulation of microenvironment remodeling in brain tumors: from mechanism to therapy.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Review
- Beyond the chaos: How architecture structures tumour biology.The FEBS journal · 2026Review
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Abstract
Beyond their many well-established biological aberrations, solid tumours create an abnormal physical microenvironment that fuels cancer progression and confers treatment resistance. Mechanical forces impact tumours across a range of biological sizes and timescales, from rapid events at the molecular level involved in their sensing and transmission, to slower and larger-scale events, including clonal selection, epigenetic changes, cell invasion, metastasis and immune response. Owing to challenges with studying these dynamic stimuli in biological systems, the mechanistic understanding of the effects and pathways triggered by abnormally elevated mechanical forces remains elusive, despite clear correlations with cancer pathophysiology, aggressiveness and therapeutic resistance. In this Review, we examine the emerging and diverse roles of physical forces in solid tumours and provide a comprehensive framework for understanding solid stress mechanobiology. We first review the physiological importance of mechanical forces, especially compressive stresses, and discuss their defining characteristics, biological context and relative magnitudes. We then explain how abnormal compressive stresses emerge in tumours and describe the experimental challenges in investigating these mechanically induced processes. Finally, we discuss the clinical translation of mechanotherapeutics that alleviate solid stresses and their potential to synergize with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapies.
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