Naoki Kirimura

Anti-gicerin Antibody Suppresses Early Pulmonary Metastatic Colonization of B16F10 Melanoma Cells

Background/Aim: Adhesion of circulating melanoma cells to the pulmonary vascular bed is a critical early step in hematogenous metastasis. Gicerin is an immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecule that can mediate homophilic cell-cell adhesion. We examined whether gicerin is...