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SUBMITTER: Hirata W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10721637 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hirata Wataru W Itatani Yoshiro Y Masui Hideyuki H Kawada Kenji K Mizuno Rei R Yamamoto Takamasa T Okamoto Takuya T Ogawa Ryotaro R Inamoto Susumu S Maekawa Hisatsugu H Okamura Ryosuke R Kiyasu Yoshiyuki Y Hanada Keita K Okamoto Michio M Nishikawa Yasuyo Y Sugimoto Naoko N Tamura Takuya T Hatano Etsuro E Sakai Yoshiharu Y Obama Kazutaka K
Scientific reports 20231214 1
Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a secreted cytokine that functions as a decoy receptor for receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B (RANK) ligand (RANKL). Anti-RANKL treatment for bone metastasis has been widely accepted for solid tumors. However, the mechanism of OPG-RANKL-RANK signaling in systemic colorectal cancer (CRC) metastasis remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the relevance and function of OPG expression in CRC liver metastasis. First, we performed in silico analysis using The ...[more]