Cancer-associated fibroblasts: overview, progress, challenges, and directions

Q Ping, R Yan, X Cheng, W Wang, Y Zhong… - Cancer gene …, 2021 - nature.com
Tumors are one of the main causes of death in humans. The development of safe and
effective methods for early diagnosis and treatment of tumors is a difficult problem that needs …

Mesenchymal stromal cells in cancer: a review of their immunomodulatory functions and dual effects on tumor progression

S Galland, I Stamenkovic - The Journal of pathology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mesenchymal stem or stromal cells (MSCs) are pluripotent cells implicated in a broad range
of physiological events, including organogenesis and maintenance of tissue homeostasis as …

CAF secreted miR-522 suppresses ferroptosis and promotes acquired chemo-resistance in gastric cancer

H Zhang, T Deng, R Liu, T Ning, H Yang, D Liu… - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Background Ferroptosis is a novel mode of non-apoptotic cell death induced by build-up of
toxic lipid peroxides (lipid-ROS) in an iron dependent manner. Cancer-associated …

Antimicrobial production by perifollicular dermal preadipocytes is essential to the pathophysiology of acne

AM O'Neill, MC Liggins, JS Seidman, TH Do… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Innate immune defense against deep tissue infection by Staphylococcus aureus is
orchestrated by fibroblasts that become antimicrobial when triggered to differentiate into …

Single-cell analysis of human basal cell carcinoma reveals novel regulators of tumor growth and the tumor microenvironment

CF Guerrero-Juarez, GH Lee, Y Liu, S Wang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
How basal cell carcinoma (BCC) interacts with its tumor microenvironment to promote
growth is unclear. We use singe-cell RNA sequencing to define the human BCC ecosystem …

Molecular analysis of primary and metastatic sites in patients with renal cell carcinoma

S Gulati, PC Barata, A Elliott, MA Bilen… - The Journal of clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
BACKGROUND Metastases are the hallmark of lethal cancer, though underlying
mechanisms that drive metastatic spread to specific organs remain poorly understood …

Asporin, an extracellular matrix protein, is a beneficial regulator of cardiac remodeling

C Huang, A Sharma, R Thakur, D Rai, M Katiki… - Matrix Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Heart failure is accompanied by adverse cardiac remodeling involving extracellular matrix
(ECM). Cardiac ECM acts as a major reservoir for many proteins including growth factors …

Mesenchymal/stromal stem cells: necessary factors in tumour progression

X Li, Q Fan, X Peng, S Yang, S Wei, J Liu, L Yang… - Cell Death …, 2022 - nature.com
Mesenchymal/stromal stem cells (MSCs) are a crucial component of the tumour
microenvironment (TME). They can be recruited from normal tissues into the TME and …

Asporin regulated by miR-26b-5p mediates chondrocyte senescence and exacerbates osteoarthritis progression via TGF-β1/Smad2 pathway

L Liu, C Zhao, H Zhang, Y Lu, B Luo, Z Yao… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objectives This study aimed to investigate the role and mechanism of asporin in modulating
chondrocyte senescence in OA pathology. Methods Asporin and senescence-related …

Single cell analysis of cribriform prostate cancer reveals cell intrinsic and tumor microenvironmental pathways of aggressive disease

HY Wong, Q Sheng, AB Hesterberg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cribriform prostate cancer, found in both invasive cribriform carcinoma (ICC) and intraductal
carcinoma (IDC), is an aggressive histological subtype that is associated with progression to …