Expression of mitochondrial dynamics markers during melanoma progression: Comparative study of head and neck cutaneous and mucosal melanomas.
Ciro Dantas SoaresThayná Melo de Lima MoraisFernanda Viviane MarianoAlbina AltemaniMarcelo Brum CorrêaRodrigo Ribas Dias Dos ReisLuciana Schultz AmorimSonia Maria Soares FerreiraOslei Paes de AlmeidaRoman CarlosJacks JorgePublished in: Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology (2019)
Our results suggest that mitochondrial fission and fusion processes can play an important role during multiple stages of tumorigenesis and the development of nodal and distant metastasis in cutaneous and mucosal melanomas.