2 papers
q-bio.CB2018
Balance of Mechanical Forces Drives Endothelial Gap Formation and May Facilitate Cancer and Immune-Cell Extravasation
Jorge Escribano, Michelle B. Chen, Emad Moeendarbary +5
The formation of gaps in the endothelium is a crucial process underlying both cancer and immune cell extravasation, contributing to the functioning of the immune system during infe…
q-bio.CB2018
Rigidity controls human desmoplastic matrix anisotropy to enable pancreatic cancer invasion via extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2
Ruchi Malik, Tiffany Luong, Xuan Cao +6
Only about 8 percent of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, PDAC, live up to 5 years following diagnosis; by 2020 PDAC will become the second most lethal cancer in the…