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SUBMITTER: Leal-Orta E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498261 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cell communication and signaling 20181025 2
In breast cancer cells, the linoleic acid (LA), an ω-6 essential polyunsaturated fatty acid, induces a variety of biological processes, including migration and invasion. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are structures released by normal and malignant cells into extracellular space, and their function is dependent on their cargo and the cell type from which are secreted. Particularly, the EVs from MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells treated with LA promote an epithelial-mesenchymal-transition (EMT)-like p ...[more]