The Evolution of Placental Invasion and Cancer Metastasis are Causally Linked
K. Gupta, J. Afzal, J. D. Maziarz, A. Hamidzadeh, C. Liang, E. M. Erkenbrack, H. Nam, J.-D. Haeger, C. Pfarrer, T. Hoang, T. Ott, T. Spencer, M. Pavlicev, D. Antczak, A. Levchenko, G. P. Wagner
The paper links placental invasion and cancer metastasis by showing that human stromal cells are more permissive to invasion than bovine cells, supporting the Evolved Levels of Invasibility hypothesis.
bioRxiv · Jan 23, 2019Cancer Biology