Matrix Effectors and Cancer

Zoi Piperigkou; Nikos K. Karamanos

doi:10.3390/cancers14010200

Cancers (Dec 2021)

Matrix Effectors and Cancer

Zoi Piperigkou,
Nikos K. Karamanos

Affiliations

Zoi Piperigkou: Biochemistry, Biochemical Analysis and Matrix Pathobiology Research Group, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece
Nikos K. Karamanos: Biochemistry, Biochemical Analysis and Matrix Pathobiology Research Group, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14010200
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 1
p. 200

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Extracellular matrices (ECMs) are highly dynamic three-dimensional structural meshworks composed of macromolecules, such as proteoglycans/glycosaminoglycans (PGs/GAGs), collagens, laminins, elastin, (glyco)proteins, and matrix-degrading enzymes, such as proteases and glycosidases [...]

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Published in Cancers

ISSN: 2072-6694 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/

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