Slug Is A Surrogate Marker of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in Head and Neck Cancer.

T B SteinbichlerJozsef DudasJ IngruberR GlueckertS SprungF FleischerN CidlinskyDaniel DejacoB KoflerA I GiotakisIra-Ida SkvortsovaH Riechelmann

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2020)

EMT can be assessed in HNC tumor probes by cytokeratin/vimentin co-expression and loss of E-cadherin/β-catenin co-expression. Slug score provides a convenient surrogate marker for EMT.

Keyphrases

epithelial mesenchymal transition
poor prognosis
signaling pathway
small molecule
binding protein
long non coding rna
single molecule
fluorescence imaging
photodynamic therapy