cancer progression;
caveolin;
metastasis;
angiogenesis;
prognosis;
D O I:
10.1016/j.canlet.2008.03.055
中图分类号:
R73 [肿瘤学];
学科分类号:
100214 [肿瘤学];
摘要:
Caveolin-1, an essential scaffold protein of caveolae and cellular transport processes, lately gained recognition as a stage-and tissue-specific tumor modulator in vivo. Patient studies and rodent models corroborated its janus-faced role as a tumor suppressor in non-neoplastic tissue, its down-regulation (loss of function) upon transformation and its re-expression (regain of function) in advanced-stage metastatic and multidrug resistant tumors. This review is focussed on the role of caveolin-1 in metastasis and angiogenesis and its clinical implications as a prognostic marker in cancer progression. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.