The matrix in cancer

TR Cox - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The extracellular matrix is a fundamental, core component of all tissues and organs, and is
essential for the existence of multicellular organisms. From the earliest stages of organism …

Targeting STAT3 in cancer immunotherapy

S Zou, Q Tong, B Liu, W Huang, Y Tian, X Fu - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
As a point of convergence for numerous oncogenic signaling pathways, signal transducer
and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is central in regulating the anti-tumor immune …

Activated fibroblasts in cancer: Perspectives and challenges

G Caligiuri, DA Tuveson - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Activated fibroblasts in tumors, or cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), have become a
popular research area over the past decade. As important players in many aspects of tumor …

MatrisomeDB 2.0: 2023 updates to the ECM-protein knowledge database

X Shao, CD Gomez, N Kapoor… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex assembly of proteins that constitutes the scaffold
organizing cells, tissues, and organs. Over the past decade, mass-spectrometry-based …

Understanding the tumor microenvironment for effective immunotherapy

H Sadeghi Rad, J Monkman… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in immunotherapy have led to durable and long‐term benefits in a subset of
patients across a number of solid tumor types. Understanding of the subsets of patients that …

Diverse functions of macrophages in different tumor microenvironments

M Yang, D McKay, JW Pollard, CE Lewis - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Tumor-associated macrophages are a major constituent of malignant tumors and are known
to stimulate key steps in tumor progression. In our review in this journal in 2006, we …

Neutrophils facilitate ovarian cancer premetastatic niche formation in the omentum

WJ Lee, SY Ko, MS Mohamed, HA Kenny… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
Ovarian cancer preferentially metastasizes to the omentum, a fatty tissue characterized by
immune structures called milky spots, but the cellular dynamics that direct this tropism are …

Relevance of immune cell and tumor microenvironment imaging in the new era of immunotherapy

F Galli, JV Aguilera, B Palermo, SN Markovic… - Journal of experimental …, 2020 - Springer
Tumor-infiltrating immune cells play a key role against cancer. However, malignant cells are
able to evade the immune response and establish a very complex balance in which different …

Tissue-resident macrophages in omentum promote metastatic spread of ovarian cancer

A Etzerodt, M Moulin, TK Doktor, M Delfini… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Experimental and clinical evidence suggests that tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs)
play important roles in cancer progression. Here, we have characterized the ontogeny and …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts in inflammation and antitumor immunity

KB Kennel, M Bozlar, AF De Valk, FR Greten - Clinical Cancer Research, 2023 - AACR
Tumor-associated inflammation (TAI) is a feature of essentially all cancers and can confer
both tumor-promoting and-suppressive functions. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) …