The epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) is an important process in tumor development. Despite previous investigations, it remains unclear how p120-catenin (p120ctn) isoforms 1A and 3A affect the EMT of tumor cells. Here we investigated expression of p120ctn, E-cadherin and vimentin in 78 human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) samples by immunohistochemistry and found that p120ctn membrane...

Cancer invasiveness plays a major role in the mortality of patients with solid tumors, and deregulated cell adhesion and migration are suspected to drive invasive behavior. Since Eph receptor tyrosine kinases control both cell attachment and migration, they may act to define the level of cancer invasiveness. EphB6 is an unusual Eph receptor, lacking catalytic capacity due to alterations in its ...

Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) methods for evaluating invasiveness in plants have evolved rapidly in the last two decades. Many WRA tools exist, but none were specifically designed to screen ornamental plants prior to being released into the environment. To be accepted as a tool to evaluate ornamental plants for the nursery industry, it is critical that a WRA tool accurately predicts non-invasivene...

A search for factors predicting the behavior of tumor, its invasiveness, metastasis, response to treatment, and prognosis is primary focus breast cancer research. The objective present study was association fibrinogen vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) with various parameters carcinoma. case control conducted in which fibrinogen, VEGF levels were compared between cases controls also char...

Background: This study investigated the degree to which the invasive characteristic of glucose monitoring is a barrier to self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG). Methods: A paper-and-pencil Measure of Invasiveness as a reason for Skipping 5MBG (MISS) was created and administered to 339 people with diabetes. The correlations between MISS scores and actual 5MBG frequency, percent adherence to 5M...