The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
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...that, let’s take a look at exosomes.
Proficient in transportation, exosomes are tools of communication...after injecting breast cancer cells into mice, exosomes expressed specific integrins (cell-adhesion proteins...proteins) targeting different organs. This means that exosomes not only promote microenvironment’s malignancy...also incite different organs to become malignant.
Exosomes also contain miRNA (micro RNA) and other molecules...epigenetic changes in targeted cells. In this case, exosomes may transport miRNA from drug-resistant cells ...PMID: 22439926.
Hoshino, Ayuko, et al. "Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis." Nature...