The immune niche of the liver

ML Cheng, D Nakib, CT Perciani… - Clinical …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
… paid to the role that the hepatic immune niche has in liver homeostasis, … is the main focus
of this review. Figure 1 summarizes the types of immune cells that have been described in the

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-secreted GRP78 promotes the establishment of a pre-metastatic niche in the liver microenvironment

L Chen, L Liu, P Lei - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… in the liver promotes immune tolerance. To elucidate the role of sGRP78 in the hepatic
pre-metastatic niche, we established an experimental liver metastasis model using sGRP78-…

Role of the microenvironment in liver metastasis: from pre-to prometastatic niches

P Brodt - Clinical Cancer Research, 2016 - AACR
… Circulating and bone marrow–derived immune cells are also recruited to the liver in … of
the role of the liver microenvironment in the growth of hepatic metastases and the reciprocal …

Hepatocytes direct the formation of a pro-metastatic niche in the liver

JW Lee, ML Stone, PM Porrett, SK Thomas, CA Komar… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
… IL-6–STAT3 signalling and the subsequent production of SAA, which alters the immune and
fibrotic microenvironment of the liver to establish a pro-metastatic niche (Extended Data Fig. …

The liver fibrosis niche: Novel insights into the interplay between fibrosis-composing mesenchymal cells, immune cells, endothelial cells, and extracellular matrix

M Matsuda, E Seki - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2020 - Elsevier
The pathological hallmark of liver fibrosis is the excessive accumulation of extracellular …
the liver parenchyma. Insufficient treatment of underlying liver disease causes progressive liver

Lipid metabolism in the immune niche of tumor-prone liver microenvironment

J Chen, TTH Chan, J Zhou - Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
… Consequently, the hepatic immune response to signals … , the immune tolerant features of
the liver can be hijacked by cancer cells to enable their survival and local expansion in the liver. …

CD8+ T cell activation leads to constitutive formation of liver tissue-resident memory T cells that seed a large and flexible niche in the liver

LE Holz, JE Prier, D Freestone, TM Steiner, K English… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
immunity. In this study, we investigated … as the role of T cell activation in the establishment
of liver Trm cell populations. We also investigated the size of the Trm cell niche in the liver by …

Liver tropism in cancer: the hepatic metastatic niche

A Mielgo, MC Schmid - Cold Spring …, 2020 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The liver parenchyma is rich in cells of the innate immune system, potentially posing an
obstacle to cancer cells. Particularly macrophages are highly abundant. In rodent …

Premetastatic niche formation in the liver: emerging mechanisms and mouse models

A Krüger - Journal of Molecular Medicine, 2015 - Springer
the studies on the premetastatic niche in the liver were not always as clearly defined. In respect
to liver metastasis, two of the … Suppression of the immune response in the liver by MDSCs …

Resolving the fibrotic niche of human liver cirrhosis at single-cell level

P Ramachandran, R Dobie, JR Wilson-Kanamori… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
… including immune, endothelial and mesenchymal cells spatially located within areas of
scarring, termed the fibrotic niche. Despite progress in our understanding of liver fibrogenesis …