The adipocyte microenvironment and cancer

A Mukherjee, AJ Bilecz, E Lengyel - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Many epithelial tumors grow in the vicinity of or metastasize to adipose tissue. As tumors
develop, crosstalk between adipose tissue and cancer cells leads to changes in adipocyte …

Immune and non-immune functions of adipose tissue leukocytes

WV Trim, L Lynch - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Adipose tissue is a complex dynamic organ with whole-body immunometabolic influence.
Much of the work into understanding the role of immune cells in adipose tissue has been in …

GPR35 promotes neutrophil recruitment in response to serotonin metabolite 5-HIAA

M De Giovanni, H Tam, C Valet, Y Xu, MR Looney… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Rapid neutrophil recruitment to sites of inflammation is crucial for innate immune responses.
Here, we reveal that the G-protein-coupled receptor GPR35 is upregulated in activated …

Fibroblasts as confederates of the immune system

D Correa‐Gallegos, D Jiang… - Immunological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fibroblastic stromal cells are as diverse, in origin and function, as the niches they fashion in
the mammalian body. This cellular variety impacts the spectrum of responses elicited by the …

Immune mechanisms orchestrate tertiary lymphoid structures in tumors via cancer-associated fibroblasts

AB Rodriguez, JD Peske, AN Woods, KM Leick… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor-associated tertiary lymphoid structures (TA-TLS) are associated with enhanced
patient survival and responsiveness to cancer therapies, but the mechanisms underlying …

Toward a consensus view of mammalian adipocyte stem and progenitor cell heterogeneity

R Ferrero, P Rainer, B Deplancke - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
White adipose tissue (WAT) is a cellularly heterogeneous endocrine organ that not only
serves as an energy reservoir, but also actively participates in metabolic homeostasis …

Specialized immune responses in the peritoneal cavity and omentum

M Liu, A Silva-Sanchez, TD Randall… - Journal of Leucocyte …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The peritoneal cavity is a fluid filled space that holds most of the abdominal organs,
including the omentum, a visceral adipose tissue that contains milky spots or clusters of …

Necroptosis triggers spatially restricted neutrophil-mediated vascular damage during lung ischemia reperfusion injury

W Li, Y Terada, YY Tyurina, VA Tyurin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Ischemia reperfusion injury represents a common pathological condition that is triggered by
the release of endogenous ligands. While neutrophils are known to play a critical role in its …

Mechanisms of peritoneal fibrosis: focus on immune cells–peritoneal stroma interactions

M Terri, F Trionfetti, C Montaldo, M Cordani… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Peritoneal fibrosis is characterized by abnormal production of extracellular matrix proteins
leading to progressive thickening of the submesothelial compact zone of the peritoneal …

LYVE1+ macrophages of murine peritoneal mesothelium promote omentum-independent ovarian tumor growth

N Zhang, SH Kim, A Gainullina, EC Erlich… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Two resident macrophage subsets reside in peritoneal fluid. Macrophages also reside within
mesothelial membranes lining the peritoneal cavity, but they remain poorly characterized …