Browsing by Author "Zacharia, Lefteris C."
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Collagen content and extracellular matrix cause cytoskeletal remodelling in pancreatic fibroblasts
Stylianou, Andreas; Gkretsi, Vasiliki; Louca, Maria; Zacharia, Lefteris C.; Stylianopoulos, Triantafyllos (2019)In many solid tumours a desmoplastic reaction takes place, which results in tumour tissue stiffening due to the extensive production of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, such as collagen, by stromal cells, mainly ...
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Depletion of Ras Suppressor-1 (RSU-1) promotes cell invasion of breast cancer cells through a compensatory upregulation of a truncated isoform
Gkretsi, Vasiliki; Kalli, Maria; Efstathiades, Christodoulos; Papageorgis, Panagiotis; Papanikolaou, Vassilios; Zacharia, Lefteris C.; Tsezou, Aspasia; Athanassiou, Evangelos; Stylianopoulos, Triantafyllos (2019)Extracellular matrix (ECM)-adhesion proteins and actin cytoskeleton are pivotal in cancer cell invasion. Ras Suppressor-1 (RSU-1), a cell-ECM adhesion protein that interacts with PINCH-1, thus being connected to Integrin ...