Search Results - "Thompson, Keyata N."
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Polarized NHE1 and SWELL1 regulate migration direction, efficiency and metastasis
Published in Nature communications (17-10-2022)“…Cell migration regulates diverse (patho)physiological processes, including cancer metastasis. According to the Osmotic Engine Model, polarization of NHE1 at…”
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Microtubule disruption reduces metastasis more effectively than primary tumor growth
Published in Breast cancer research : BCR (14-02-2022)“…Clinical cancer imaging focuses on tumor growth rather than metastatic phenotypes. The microtubule-depolymerizing drug, Vinorelbine, reduced the metastatic…”
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Lipid tethering of breast tumor cells reduces cell aggregation during mammosphere formation
Published in Scientific reports (05-02-2021)“…Mammosphere assays are widely used in vitro to identify prospective cancer-initiating stem cells that can propagate clonally to form spheres in free-floating…”
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Hydrogen Peroxide Induces α-Tubulin Detyrosination and Acetylation and Impacts Breast Cancer Metastatic Phenotypes
Published in Cells (Basel, Switzerland) (27-04-2023)“…Levels of hydrogen peroxide are highly elevated in the breast tumor microenvironment compared to normal tissue. Production of hydrogen peroxide is implicated…”
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Single-Cell Tracking of Breast Cancer Cells Enables Prediction of Sphere Formation from Early Cell Divisions
Published in iScience (26-10-2018)“…The mammosphere assay has become widely employed to quantify stem-like cells in a population. However, the problem is there is no standard protocol employed by…”
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OBSCN restoration via OBSCN-AS1 long-noncoding RNA CRISPR-targeting suppresses metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-03-2023)“…Mounting evidence implicates the giant, cytoskeletal protein obscurin (720 to 870 kDa), encoded by the gene, in the predisposition and development of breast…”
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Curcumin Targets Breast Cancer Stem-like Cells with Microtentacles That Persist in Mammospheres and Promote Reattachment
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-02-2014)“…Cancer stem-like cells (CSC) and circulating tumor cells (CTC) have related properties associated with distant metastasis, but the mechanisms through which…”
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Mechanoactivation of NOX2-generated ROS elicits persistent TRPM8 Ca2+ signals that are inhibited by oncogenic KRas
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-10-2020)“…Changes in the mechanical microenvironment and mechanical signals are observed during tumor progression, malignant transformation, and metastasis. In this…”
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A microfluidic assay for the quantification of the metastatic propensity of breast cancer specimens
Published in Nature biomedical engineering (01-06-2019)“…The challenge of predicting which patients with breast cancer will develop metastases leads to the overtreatment of patients with benign disease and to the…”
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Mechanoactivation of NOX2-generated ROS elicits persistent TRPM8 Ca 2+ signals that are inhibited by oncogenic KRas
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-10-2020)“…Changes in the mechanical microenvironment and mechanical signals are observed during tumor progression, malignant transformation, and metastasis. In this…”
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Elevation of Cytoplasmic Calcium Suppresses Microtentacle Formation and Function in Breast Tumor Cells
Published in Cancers (31-01-2023)“…Cytoskeletal remodeling in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) facilitates metastatic spread. Previous oncology studies examine sustained aberrant calcium (Ca )…”
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Tubulin Carboxypeptidase Activity Promotes Focal Gelatin Degradation in Breast Tumor Cells and Induces Apoptosis in Breast Epithelial Cells That Is Overcome by Oncogenic Signaling
Published in Cancers (28-03-2022)“…Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of the microtubule network impart differential functions across normal cell types and their cancerous counterparts. The…”
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ROCK inhibition promotes microtentacles that enhance reattachment of breast cancer cells
Published in Oncotarget (20-03-2015)“…The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood predicts poor patient outcome and CTC frequency is correlated with higher risk of metastasis. Recently…”
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The combinatorial activation of the PI3K and Ras/MAPK pathways is sufficient for aggressive tumor formation, while individual pathway activation supports cell persistence
Published in Oncotarget (03-11-2015)“…A high proportion of human tumors maintain activation of both the PI3K and Ras/MAPK pathways. In basal-like breast cancer (BBC), PTEN expression is…”
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Successful rederivation of contaminated immunocompetent mice using neonatal transfer with iodine immersion
Published in Comparative medicine (01-10-2005)“…There is an ongoing need to eradicate intercurrent disease from research mouse colonies. Commonly used surgical methods, however, are expensive and…”
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Abstract 2575: Mechanoactivation of NOX2-generated ROS elicits persistent TRPM8 Ca2+ signals that are inhibited by oncogenic KRas
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-08-2020)“…Changes in the mechanical microenvironment and mechanical signals are observed during tumor progression, malignant transformation, and metastasis. In this…”
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Abstract LB-342: HDAC inhibition promotes tubulin-independent cancer cell migration
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-07-2016)“…Breast cancer remains the most common cancer and second-leading cause of cancer-related death in women, with metastatic disease carrying a particularly poor…”
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Abstract 2161: Activation of the MAPK pathway in combination with PTEN loss leads to aggressive primary tumor formation
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (01-08-2015)“…Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy in women, and although many breast cancers are curable via surgery, approximately one quarter maintain a latent…”
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Abstract A32: Cell dormancy and tumorigenicity due to PTEN loss
Published in Molecular cancer therapeutics (01-07-2015)“…Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy in women, and although many breast cancers are curable via surgery, approximately one quarter maintain a latent…”
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