Filopodia and the metastatic cascade.
Guillaume Jacquemet
Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku [Turku, Finland]
28/11/2019 to 01/01/0001
Time: 12:30:00
Salón de actos del Centro de Investigación del Cáncer
The formation of metastases is responsible for 90% of deaths in patients with solid tumours. Consequently, there is a pressing need to develop therapeutic strategies that block the ability of cancer cell to disseminate throughout the body. We and others have made an intriguing discovery that cancer metastasis is associated with the development of specialized cellular protrusions called filopodia. In migrating cells, filopodia are “an