Association of tumour-associated macrophages with cancer cell EMT, invasion, and metastasis of Kazakh oesophageal squamous cell cancer

• Main Authors: Jihong Liu (Author), Chunxiao Li (Author), Liyan Zhang (Author), Kai Liu (Author), Xianli Jiang (Author), Xueli Wang (Author), Lan Yang (Author), Weihua Liang (Author), Kunping Liu (Author), Jianming Hu (Author), Feng Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) play an important role in the growth, progression, and metastasis of tumours. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a mechanism for tumour invasion and metastasis. In this study, we aimed to determine whether TAMs can induce EMT for the i...