Insights and opportunities at the crossroads of cancer and neuroscience

C Pan, F Winkler - Nature cell biology, 2022 - nature.com
The biological and pathological importance of mutual interactions between the nervous
system and cancer have become increasingly evident. The emerging field of cancer …

Emerging experimental models for assessing perineural invasion in human cancers

SH Jiang, S Zhang, H Wang, JL Xue, ZG Zhang - Cancer Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer neuroscience has emerged as a burgeoning field for the investigation of cancer-
nervous system interactions. Perineural invasion (PNI) is defined as the presence of cancer …

Reprogrammed Schwann cells organize into dynamic tracks that promote pancreatic cancer invasion

S Deborde, L Gusain, A Powers, A Marcadis, Y Yu… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Nerves are a component of the tumor microenvironment contributing to cancer progression,
but the role of cells from nerves in facilitating cancer invasion remains poorly understood …

Phenotype screens of murine pancreatic cancer identify a Tgf-α-Ccl2-paxillin axis driving human-like neural invasion

X Wang, R Istvanffy, L Ye, S Teller, M Laschinger… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
Solid cancers like pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), a type of pancreatic cancer,
frequently exploit nerves for rapid dissemination. This neural invasion (NI) is an independent …

Sensory neurotransmitter calcitonin gene‐related peptide modulates tumor growth and lymphocyte infiltration in oral squamous cell carcinoma

LA McIlvried, MA Atherton, NL Horan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma are highly innervated by peripheral sensory
neurons. Local neurotransmitter release (eg, calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP)) from …

Stimulation of hypothalamic oxytocin neurons suppresses colorectal cancer progression in mice

S Pan, K Yin, Z Tang, S Wang, Z Chen, Y Wang, H Zhu… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Emerging evidence suggests that the nervous system is involved in tumor development in
the periphery, however, the role of the central nervous system remains largely unknown …

Investigation of neural microenvironment in prostate cancer in context of neural density, perineural invasion, and neuroendocrine profile of tumors

D Sigorski, J Gulczyński, A Sejda, W Rogowski… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background Cancer stroma contains the neural compartment with specific components and
action. Neural microenvironment processing includes among others axonogenesis …

The role of extracellular vesicles in cancer–nerve crosstalk of the peripheral nervous system

Y Guo, Z Gil - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the pathogenic operations of cancer–nerve crosstalk (eg, neuritogenesis,
neoneurogensis, and perineural invasion—PNI) in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) …

Understanding and modeling nerve–cancer interactions

TT Le, MJ Oudin - Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
The peripheral nervous system plays an important role in cancer progression. Studies in
multiple cancer types have shown that higher intratumoral nerve density is associated with …

Tumor innervation is triggered by endoplasmic reticulum stress

CC Jiang, M Marsland, Y Wang, A Dowdell, E Eden… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Nerve infiltration in the tumor microenvironment is emerging as a promoter of cancer
progression that could be targeted in therapies, but the mechanisms initiating tumor …