M2‐like tumor‐associated macrophages promote epithelial–mesenchymal transition through the transforming growth factor β/Smad/zinc finger e‐box binding homeobox pathway with increased metastatic potential and tumor cell proliferation in lung squamous cell carcinoma - Sumitomo, Ryota; Menju, Toshi; Shimazu, Yumeta; Toyazaki, Toshiya; Chiba, Naohisa; Miyamoto, Hideaki; Hirayama, Yutaka; Nishikawa, Shigeto; Tanaka, Satona; Yutaka, Yojiro; Yamada, Yoshito; Nakajima, Daisuke; et al. (Cancer science, 2023)
Keywords: Cancer therapies; CD163 antigen; Cell proliferation; Cells; E-cadherin; Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; epithelial–mesenchymal transition; Growth factors; Homeobox; Immunohistochemistry; Leukocyte migration; Ligands; Lung cancer; Lung carcinoma; lung squamous cell carcinoma; Macrophages; Medical prognosis; Metastases; Metastasis; Monocytes; Nitric oxide; Original; Patients; Smad protein; Smad3 protein; Squamous cell carcinoma; Stroma; Transcription factors; Transforming growth factor-b; Transforming growth factor-b1; Tumors; tumor‐associated macrophage; Vascular endothelial growth factor; Vimentin; Western blotting; Zinc finger proteins; tumor-associated macrophage; epithelial-mesenchymal transition; vimentin; E-cadherin; lung squamous cell carcinoma