[HTML][HTML] Thy-1+ Cancer-associated Fibroblasts Adversely Impact Lung Cancer Prognosis

MJ Schliekelman, CJ Creighton, BN Baird, Y Chen… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) regulate diverse intratumoral biological programs and
can promote or inhibit tumorigenesis, but those CAF populations that negatively impact the …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-scale integrative analyses identify THBS2+ cancer-associated fibroblasts as a key orchestrator promoting aggressiveness in early-stage lung …

H Yang, B Sun, L Fan, W Ma, K Xu, SRR Hall… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Subsets of patients with early-stage lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) have a poor
post-surgical course after curative surgery. However, biomarkers stratifying this high-risk …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and characterization of cancer-associated fibroblast subpopulations in lung adenocarcinoma

D Kim, JS Kim, I Cheon, SR Kim, SH Chun, JJ Kim… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Considering that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) facilitate cancer cell
motility, invasiveness, and drug resistance, heterogeneity within the CAF population may be …

[HTML][HTML] Three subtypes of lung cancer fibroblasts define distinct therapeutic paradigms

H Hu, Z Piotrowska, PJ Hare, H Chen, HE Mulvey… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are highly heterogeneous. With the lack of a
comprehensive understanding of CAFs' functional distinctions, it remains unclear how …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-associated fibroblasts regulate the plasticity of lung cancer stemness via paracrine signalling

WJ Chen, CC Ho, YL Chang, HY Chen, CA Lin… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a promising target for treating cancer, yet how CSC plasticity
is maintained in vivo is unclear and is difficult to study in vitro. Here we establish a …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic targeting of cancer-associated fibroblasts in the non-small cell lung cancer tumor microenvironment

Y Shintani, T Kimura, S Funaki, N Ose, T Kanou… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the tumor microenvironment, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have
multiple tumor-promoting functions in drug resistance, regulation of the niche of cancer stem …

Spatial positioning and matrix programs of cancer-associated fibroblasts promote T-cell exclusion in human lung tumors

JA Grout, P Sirven, AM Leader, S Maskey, E Hector… - Cancer Discovery, 2022 - AACR
It is currently accepted that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) participate in T-cell
exclusion from tumor nests. To unbiasedly test this, we used single-cell RNA sequencing …

Prognostic gene-expression signature of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts in non-small cell lung cancer

R Navab, D Strumpf, B Bandarchi… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The tumor microenvironment strongly influences cancer development, progression, and
metastasis. The role of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in these processes and …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-associated fibroblasts facilitate squamous cell carcinoma lung metastasis in mice by providing TGFβ-mediated cancer stem cell niche

X Shi, J Luo, KJ Weigel, SC Hall, D Du, F Wu… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have been shown to enhance squamous cell
carcinoma (SCC) growth, but it is unclear whether they promote SCC lung metastasis. We …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of distinct populations of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts from non–small cell lung carcinoma reveals a role for ST8SIA2 in cancer cell …

J Hao, C Zeltz, M Pintilie, Q Li, S Sakashita, T Wang… - Neoplasia, 2019 - Elsevier
Carcinoma-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are abundant stromal cells in tumor
microenvironment that are critically involved in cancer progression. Contrasting reports have …