Trp53 inactivation in the tumor
microenvironment promotes tumor progression by expanding the immunosuppressive lymphoid - like stromal network.
«Altered
microenvironment promotes progression of pre-invasive breast cancer: myoepithelial expression of integrin DCIS identifies high - risk patients and predicts recurrence» by Michael D Allen et al. published in Clinical Cancer Research on Tuesday 3 December.
Nefedova studies molecular mechanisms by which bone marrow
microenvironment promotes tumor survival and progression.
Here, we will explore how the tumor
microenvironment promotes oncogenic progression, while protecting the tumor from therapeutic intervention.
This study, published in the journal Microarrays, shows that lack of SOST in the bone
microenvironment promotes the expression of many genes associated with cell migration and / or invasion, including long non-coding RNA MALAT1 in prostate cancer, suggesting that SOST has an inhibitory effect on prostate cancer invasion.
One reason that fast - relaxing
microenvironments promote more osteogenesis and form bone is that cells inside these matrices can mechanically remodel the matrix and more easily change shape, said Ovijit Chaudhuri, former postdoctoral fellow in the Mooney lab and co-first author.
Several soluble factors released by stromal cells within the bone
microenvironment promote tumor growth and survival (27).
Not exact matches
However, tumor cells can circumvent this immune defense by establishing a surrounding
microenvironment that prevents the infiltration of NK cells and thus
promotes tumor survival and growth.
Instead, tumors should be considered complex tissues in which the cancer cells communicate with the surrounding cellular
microenvironment and evolve traits that
promote their own survival.
Instead, tumors should be considered as complex tissues in which the cancer cells communicate directly and indirectly with the surrounding cellular
microenvironment and evolve traits that
promote their own survival.
For example, low grade inflammation in the tumour
microenvironment can attract detrimental regulatory cells and neutrophils which can inhibit tumour immunity and
promote tumorigenic factors.14
The researchers expanded the relevance of these findings to lung carcinoma, showing that soluble antibodies are generally important in the tumor
microenvironment to induce accumulation of MDSCs and
promote cancer progression.
The new study took the next logical step: Can the tumor
microenvironment be altered so that it
promotes or thwarts metastasis?
On a brighter note, not all breast cancer patients have the kind of tumor
microenvironment in which pre-op chemo can
promote metastasis.
Two other neoadjuvants, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, also
promoted metastasis by altering the tumor
microenvironment.
Nevertheless a role for these cells can not be excluded, it is possible that an incomplete replication of the suppressive
microenvironment in vitro or indeed the diversity of Treg populations mean that these studies do not fully explore the potential role of suppressive or regulatory T cells in
promoting MSC tolerance.
Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin, USA Neutrophils in the Tumor
Microenvironment Neutrophils, Wounds, and Cancer Progression Stefan Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany Pathology and immune reactivity: understanding multidimensionality in pulmonary tuberculosis Constitutive BAK activation as a determinant of drug sensitivity in malignant lymphohematopoietic cells Kathryn Moore, New York University, USA MicroRNA -33-dependent regulation of macrophage metabolism directs immune cell polarization in atherosclerosis Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, UK Myeloid Growth Factors
Promote Resistance to Mycobacterial Infection by Curtailing Granuloma Necrosis through Macrophage Replenishment Beth Stevens, Harvard University, USA Microglia: Dynamic Mediators of Synapse Development and Plasticity Do glia drive synaptic and cognitive impairment in disease?
My specialty is on microRNA as expressed by the thymic
microenvironment for the generation of regulatory T cells (Tregs) and how these molecular interactions establish central tolerance to
promote protection from autoimmunity.
During tumor development, rapid expansion of cancer cells creates a hypoxic
microenvironment that is followed by periods of reoxygenation to
promote tumor progression.
Through its various targets, MMP1
promotes not only tumor invasion but also breast cancer colonization to bone by mechanisms that include the release of membrane - bound EGF - like growth factors from tumor cells, leading to activation of EGF receptor signaling and suppression of OPG expression in osteoblasts, which in turn
promotes the differentiation and activation of osteoclasts required for bone destruction and enhanced tumor growth in the bone
microenvironment (32).
Here, we uncovered a role for the ABL kinases in
promoting breast cancer bone metastasis through the regulation of distinct pathways required for tumor colonization and survival in the bone
microenvironment.
When breast cancer cells invade the bone
microenvironment, they produce molecules that activate osteoclastic bone resorption, leading to the release of growth factors stored in the bone matrix to
promote tumor growth.
These data suggest that ABL kinases
promote breast cancer metastasis to bone in part by increasing tumor cell survival within the bone
microenvironment.
Melody A. Swartz, PhD, the University of Chicago, «Tumor - Associated Lymphatic Vessels Modulate the Stromal
Microenvironment to
Promote Tumor Invasion»
We report that ABL kinases
promoted metastasis of breast cancer cells to bone by regulating the crosstalk between tumor cells and the bone
microenvironment.
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