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Dynamically Re‐Organized Collagen Fiber Bundles Transmit Mechanical Signals and Induce Strongly Correlated Cell Migration and Self‐Organization

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Multiple Modes of Hepcidin Regulation in Breast Cancer

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Interação entre células tronco de membrana amniótica e tumor mamário canino in vitro

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Blocking IRE1a-endoribonuclease activity in hepatic stellate cells decreases tumor cell proliferation and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma

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Role of cancer associated adipocytes (CAA) and tumour associated collagen structures (TACS) in breast cancer cell invasion and metastasis

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Microengineered three-dimensional collagen fiber landscapes with independently tunable anisotropy and directionalityPreprint

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Inhibiting endoplasmic reticulum stress decreases tumor burden in a mouse model for hepatocellular carcinomaPreprint

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Development and Validation of a Collagen Nomogram for Pretreatment Prediction of Pathological Complete Response in Rectal Cancer PatientsPreprint

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Tuneable 3D biocompatible scaffolds for biological and biophysical solid-tumour microenvironment studies; applications in Ovarian Cancer

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Prognostic Significance of Fibrotic Focus and Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Breast Cancer According to Molecular Subtypes

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Changes of Mutations and Copy‐Number and Enhanced Cell Migration during Breast Tumorigenesis

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Mimicking Fibrous Topographical Features of the Tumor Microenvironment

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Mimicking Chemical Features of the Tumor Microenvironment

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Bi-directional crosstalk between cells and extracellular matrix leads to network morphogenesis in multi-layered tissuesPreprint

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Data from A Miniaturized Screening Platform to Identify Novel Regulators of Extracellular Matrix Alignment

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Growth Factors and Cancer

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A multi-model study of extracellular vesicles in bowel cancer invasion and metastasis

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Additional file 2 of Computer-assisted quantification of tumor-associated collagen signatures to improve the prognosis prediction of breast cancer

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Additional file 3 of Computer-assisted quantification of tumor-associated collagen signatures to improve the prognosis prediction of breast cancer

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Additional file 4 of Computer-assisted quantification of tumor-associated collagen signatures to improve the prognosis prediction of breast cancer

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The association between tumor microenvironment collagen and liver metastasis in colorectal cancer

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The Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptor GPR52 is a Novel Regulator of Breast Cancer Multicellular OrganizationPreprint

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Non-epithelial Circulating Tumor Cells Enhance Disease Progression in High-risk Prostate Cancer through EMT and COL1A1 Expression

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Reciprocal folding dynamics in cellular networks at the stroma-basement membrane interface

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HISTOPATHOLOGICAL PATTERNS IN PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA

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Emerin Directs Rear Myosin II Activity in Confined Cell MigrationPreprint

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Collagen-related information facilitates the stratification of breast cancer patients with NHG2

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Development and validation of a collagen signature to predict central lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer

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Additional file 2 of EMID2 is a novel biotherapeutic for aggressive cancers identified by in vivo screening

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Additional file 1 of Novel mechanism for OSM-promoted extracellular matrix remodeling in breast cancer: LOXL2 upregulation and subsequent ECM alignment

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Additional file 1 of A computational diffusion model to study antibody transport within reconstructed tumor microenvironments

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Additional file 1 of Association of the pathomics-collagen signature with lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective multicenter study

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Additional file 1 of EMID2 is a novel biotherapeutic for aggressive cancers identified by in vivo screening

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Additional file 1 of Computer-assisted quantification of tumor-associated collagen signatures to improve the prognosis prediction of breast cancer

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Additional file 4 of EMID2 is a novel biotherapeutic for aggressive cancers identified by in vivo screening

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Additional file 3 of EMID2 is a novel biotherapeutic for aggressive cancers identified by in vivo screening

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Recapitulating tumor extracellular matrix alignment to decipher its role in eliciting malignant cell phenotypes using a peptide liquid crystal hydrogel

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Prognostic Value of Collagen Signatures in Breast Cancer: Enhancing Traditional Staging Models

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Characterization of the MT1-MMP/invadopodia axis during breast cancer cells invasion in type I collagen

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EFA6B regulates a stop signal for collective invasion in breast cancer

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Hypoxia-on-chip : from technological developments to biological applications

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Rôle de l'enzyme LOXL2 dans le comportement pro-invasif des cellules de mélanome et le remodelage matriciel du stroma tumoral

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Biomimetic Collagen Matrix With Aligned Architecture and Featured Stiffness Relative to Breast Cancer Cell Behaviour

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MechGNN: A Graph Neural Network Framework for Learning Nanoparticle-Tumor Mechanical Interactions in Targeted Drug Delivery

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Biomaterial-based Platforms for Modeling the Pre-metastatic Niche

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Extracellular Matrix-Related Prognostic Signature for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma via Multi-Algorithm Survival Modeling

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Strain‐Driven Topological Reorganization in Soft Fibrin Nanofibrous Networks Enabling Tissue‐Like Alignment

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Role of orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPR52 in breast cancer cell multicellular organization and collective invasion

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Localized Hydrogel-Based Therapeutics: A Strategic Approach to Mitigating Postoperative Recurrence in Breast Cancer

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The role of the plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 in oncogenesis

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Fiber alignment alone is insufficient to predict cellular contact guidance responses in engineered 3D collagen hydrogelsPreprint

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Directed invasion of cancer cell spheroids inside 3D collagen matrices oriented by microfluidic flow in experiment and simulation

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Engineering a 3D collective cancer invasion model with control over collagen fiber alignment

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Global collective invasion occurs with minimal effort on aligned collagen fibers via long distance force transmission through soft matrices

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Biomechanical interplay between anisotropic re-organization of cells and the surrounding matrix underlies transition to invasive cancer spread

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