Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25977921›Full record

ReviewBioMed research international2015

Ca2+ signaling in cytoskeletal reorganization, cell migration, and cancer metastasis.

Feng-Chiao Tsai, Guan-Hung Kuo, Shu-Wei Chang, Pei-Ju Tsai

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Review in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Feng-Chiao TsaiDepartment of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, No. 1, Section 1, Ren-Ai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan ; Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
Guan-Hung KuoDepartment of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, No. 1, Section 1, Ren-Ai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
Shu-Wei ChangDepartment of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, No. 1, Section 1, Ren-Ai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
Pei-Ju TsaiDepartment of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, No. 1, Section 1, Ren-Ai Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proper control of Ca(2+) signaling is mandatory for effective cell migration, which is critical for embryonic development, wound healing, and cancer metastasis. However, how Ca(2+) coordinates structural components and signaling molecules for proper cell motility had remained elusive. With the advance of fluorescent live-cell Ca(2+) imaging in recent years, we gradually understand how Ca(2+) is regulated spatially and temporally in migrating cells, driving polarization, protrusion, retraction, and adhesion at the right place and right time. Here we give an overview about how cells create local Ca(2+) pulses near the leading edge, maintain cytosolic Ca(2+) gradient from back to front, and restore Ca(2+) depletion for persistent cell motility. Differential roles of Ca(2+) in regulating various effectors and the interaction of roles of Ca(2+) signaling with other pathways during migration are also discussed. Such information might suggest a new direction to control cancer metastasis by manipulating Ca(2+) and its associating signaling molecules in a judicious manner.

Indexed as

Calcium SignalingCell MovementCytoskeletonHumansMembrane Transport ProteinsModels, BiologicalNeoplasm MetastasisMembrane Transport Proteins

Identifiers

PMID25977921
PMCPMC4421034

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