Fig. 3.

Adhesive interactions mediating tumour cell adhesion to the peritoneum. a Especially α2β1 expressed on colorectal [46], ovarian [26, 27, 33–42, 149], gastric [28, 31, 43–45, 150] and pancreatic [30, 47, 151] cancer cells; b especially CD44 and CD44 s expressed on colorectal [64], ovarian [27, 34, 65–67, 70, 76, 77, 90], gastric [28, 29, 78] and pancreatic [30] cancer cells; c expressed on colorectal, ovarian and pancreatic cancer cells [95]; d expressed on ovarian cancer cells [98–100]; e expressed on ovarian [40, 93, 122, 123] and pancreatic [122] cancer cells; f expressed on ovarian cancer cells [141]; g expressed on ovarian cancer cells [55]; h expressed on ovarian cancer cells [93, 105]