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Extracellular Matrix in Development and Disease
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ISBN: 3038975710 3038975702 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The extracellular matrix in development and disease deals with the molecular and cellular aspects of development and disease. Cells exist in three-dimensional scaffolding called the extracellular matrix. The matrix holds together the millions of cells that make up our blood vessels, organs, skin, and all tissues of the body. The matrix serves as a reservoir of signaling molecules as well. In bacterial cultures, biofilms form as an extracellular matrix and play essential roles in disease and drug resistance. Topics such as matrix structure and function, cell attachment and cell surface proteins mediating cell-matrix interactions, synthesis, regulation, composition, structure, assembly, remodeling, and function of the matrix are included. A common thread uniting the topics is the essential nature that the matrix plays in normal development and pathophysiology. Providing new knowledge will lead us to improved diagnostics, the preventions of disease progression, and therapeutic strategies for the repair and regeneration of tissues. Topics such as the extracellular matrix in hereditary diseases, reproduction, cancer, muscle, and tissue engineering applications, and diverse roles for integrins, are included in this collection.


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Biochemistry of collagens, laminins and elastin : structure, function and biomarkers
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ISBN: 0128170697 0128170689 9780128170694 9780128170687 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Academic Press,

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There are 28 different collagens, with 46 unique chains, which allows for a collagen for each time and place. Some collagens are specialized for basement membrane, whereas others are the central structural component of the interstitial matrix. There are eight collagens among the 20 most abundant proteins in the body, which makes these molecules essential building blocks of tissues. In addition, lessons learned from monogenomic mutations in these proteins result in grave pathologies, exemplifying their importance in development. These molecules, and their post-translationally modified products serve as biomarkers of diseases in a range of pathologies associated with the extracellular matrix. Biochemistry of Collagens, Laminins, and Elastin: Structure, Function, and Biomarkers, Second Edition provides researchers and students current data on key structural proteins (collagens, laminins, and elastin), reviews on how these molecules affect pathologies, and information on how selected modifications of proteins can result in altered signaling properties of the original extracellular matrix component. Further, it discusses the novel concept that an increasing number of components of the extracellular matrix harbor cryptic signaling functions that may be viewed as endocrine function, and it highlights how this knowledge can be exploited to modulate fibrotic disease.--


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Links between Fibrogenesis and Cancer: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Challenges: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Challenges
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ISBN: 3039217070 3039217062 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Tissue fibrosis may occur for unknown causes or be the consequence of many pathological conditions including chronic inflammatory or infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, graft rejection, or malignancy. On the other hand, malignant tumors have been identified in fibrotic tissues decades ago, and now accumulating evidence suggests that fibrotic lesions enhance the risk of cancer in several organs such as liver, lungs, and breast. Disruption of an organ parenchymal cells and of its normal structural scaffold during tissue fibrogenesis appears to induce loss of cell polarity, promoting uncontrolled cell proliferation that may eventually lead to cancer development. Many cellular and molecular abnormalities including aberrant expression of microRNAs, genetic and epigenetic alterations, evasion or delayed apoptosis, unregulated intracellular signal pathways, and dysregulation or defective intercellular communications have been proposed to explain this link between fibrogenesis and carcinogenesis. However, the precise mechanisms of this fibrosis-to-cancer transition remain unclear. This book presents a collection of reviews and original articles summarizing recent advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer development in fibrotic organs.

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bleomycin --- n/a --- regeneration --- antitumor efficacy --- lung cancer --- SOX2 --- leiomyosarcoma --- lung cancer (LC) --- nanoparticles --- cytokines --- hepatocellular carcinoma --- metabolic reprogramming --- hepatic stellate cells --- angiogenesis --- transforming growth factor-? --- anaplastic lymphoma kinase --- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis --- growth factor --- pathogenesis --- cancer-associated fibroblasts --- fibrosis --- lipopolysaccharide --- DHA --- lncRNA --- SREBP-1 --- YAP --- protein S --- non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) --- omega-3 fatty acid --- inflammation --- metastasis --- clinical symptoms --- miRNA --- smooth muscle tumor of uncertain malignant potential --- Wnt --- interstitial fluid pressure --- heterogeneity --- hepatocytes --- myometrium --- tumor necrosis factor ? --- tumor --- tumor microenvironment --- extracellular matrix --- TAZ --- carcinogenesis --- cystic formation --- pulmonary fibrosis --- HBV --- cytokine --- genetic instability --- diagnosis --- EMT --- crizotinib --- Hippo pathway --- GPR120 --- marker --- HCV --- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis --- pathology --- common pathways --- apoptosis --- type I collagen --- GPR40 --- acute lung injury --- uterine fibroid --- renal injury --- pathophysiology --- reactive oxygen species --- immunohistochemistry --- SMAD --- butylidenephthalide --- leiomyoma --- cirrhosis --- Erk1/2 --- targeted therapy --- TGF-? --- mechanotransduction --- therapy --- breast cancer --- hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) --- hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) --- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) --- cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) --- cancer --- signal pathway --- tumor stiffness

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