Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells are often exposed to the harsh microenvironment. Under this harsh microenvironment, the nutritional dependency of PDAC is found to be determined by the dominant oncogenic signal. The nutritionally stressful microenvironment selects cancer cells with locally aggressive and angiogenic phenotype; which are paradoxically deficient in remote colonisation. The loss of capacity in remote colonisation is associated with an altered expression in the extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins.
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells are often exposed to the harsh microenvironment. Under this harsh microenvironment, the nutritional dependency of PDAC is found to be determined by the dominant oncogenic signal. The nutritionally stressful microenvironment selects cancer cells with locally aggressive and angiogenic phenotype; which are paradoxically deficient in remote colonisation. The loss of capacity in remote colonisation is associated with an altered expression in the extracel...
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