Ray Peat: The Cancer Matrix

Estrogen, radiation, vitamin E, aspirin

1. Interplay between membrane lipid peroxidation, transglutaminase activity, and cyclooxygenase 2 expression in the tissue adjoining to breast cancerJ Cell Physiol · 2012 · PMID 21678409
2. The effects of vitamin E deficiency on rat skinBr J Dermatol · 1989 · PMID 2757955
3. Tumor irradiation increases the recruitment of circulating mesenchymal stem cells into the tumor microenvironmentCancer Res · 2007 · PMID 18089798
4. Suppression of inducible cyclooxygenase and inducible nitric oxide synthase by apigenin and related flavonoids in mouse macrophagesCarcinogenesis · 1999 · PMID 10506109
5. Protective effects of aspirin from cardiac hypertrophy and oxidative stress in cardiomyopathic hamstersOxid Med Cell Longev · 2012 · PMID 22829962

Cancer field, heme oxygenase, and surgery

1. Effect of growth factors and steroids on transglutaminase activity and expression in primary astroglial cell culturesJ Neurosci Res · 2008 · PMID 18041095
2. CXCR3-B can mediate growth-inhibitory signals in human renal cancer cells by down-regulating the expression of heme oxygenase-1J Biol Chem · 2010 · PMID 20855888
3. Do mitochondrial DNA and metabolic rate complement each other in determination of the mammalian maximum longevity?Rejuvenation Res · 2008 · PMID 18442324
4. Implications for environmental health of multiple stressorsJ Radiol Prot · 2009 · PMID 19454807
5. Antiapoptotic effect of haem oxygenase-1 induced by nitric oxide in experimental solid tumourBr J Cancer · 2003 · PMID 12644828

X-inactivation and clonality

1. Recent advances in X-chromosome inactivationCurr Opin Cell Biol · 2004 · PMID 15145348

Collagen, stiffness, and the matrix

1. Cell tension, matrix mechanics, and cancer developmentCancer Cell · 2005 · PMID 16169461
2. Cellular traction stresses increase with increasing metastatic potentialPLoS One · 2012 · PMID 22389710
3. The stiffness of lymph nodes containing lung carcinoma metastases: a new diagnostic parameter measured by a tactile sensorCancer · 1997 · PMID 9366294
4. Chronic hypercapnia alters lung matrix composition in mouse pupsJ Appl Physiol (1985) · 2010 · PMID 20360436
5. Changes in collagen cross-linking and lysyl oxidase by estrogenBiochim Biophys Acta · 1978 · PMID 27234
6. Mesenchymal stem cell durotaxis depends on substrate stiffness gradient strengthBiotechnol J · 2013 · PMID 23390141
7. Fibroblast-specific protein 1/S100A4-positive cells prevent carcinoma through collagen production and encapsulation of carcinogensCancer Res · 2013 · PMID 23539447
8. Impact of the content of collagens I and III and their ratio in cancer patients for the formation of postoperative ventral herniaBull Exp Biol Med · 2010 · PMID 21165413

pH, lactate, and tumor field

1. The role of pH dynamics and the Na+/H+ antiporter in the etiopathogenesis and treatment of cancer. Two faces of the same coin--one single natureBiochim Biophys Acta · 2005 · PMID 16099110
2. pH control mechanisms of tumor survival and growthJ Cell Physiol · 2011 · PMID 20857482
3. Glucose starvation and acidosis: effect on experimental metastatic potential, DNA content and MTX resistance of murine tumour cellsBr J Cancer · 1991 · PMID 1911214

Stem cells and circulating tumor cells

1. Direct evidence of mesenchymal stem cell tropism for tumor and wounding microenvironments using in vivo bioluminescent imagingStem Cells · 2009 · PMID 19650040
2. Versatile label free biochip for the detection of circulating tumor cells from peripheral blood in cancer patientsBiosens Bioelectron · 2010 · PMID 20719496

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