摘要
Masterdevelopmentalpathways,suchasNotch,Wnt,andHedgehog,aresignalingsystemsthatcontrolproliferation,celldeath,motility,migration,andstemness.Thesesystemsarenotonlycommonlyactivatedinmanysolidtumors,wheretheydriveorcontributetocancerinitiation,butalsoinprimaryandmetastatictumordevelopment.Thereactivationofdevelopmentalpathwaysincancerstromafavorsthedevelopmentofcancerstemcellsandallowstheirmaintenance,indicatingthesesignalingpathwaysasparticularlyattractivetargetsforefficientanticancertherapies,especiallyinadvancedprimarytumorsandmetastaticcancers.Metastasisistheworstfeatureofcancerdevelopment.Thisfeatureresultsfromacascadeofeventsemergingfromthehijackingofepithelial-mesenchymaltransition,angiogenesis,migration,andinvasionbytransformingcellsandisassociatedwithpoorsurvival,drugresistance,andtumorrelapse.Inthepresentreview,wesummarizeanddiscussexperimentaldatasuggestingpivotalrolesfordevelopmentalpathwaysincancerdevelopmentandmetastasis,consideringthetherapeuticpotential.EmergingtargetedantimetastatictherapiesbasedonNotch,Wnt,andHedgehogpathwaysarealsodiscussed.
出版日期
2017年02月12日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
