Signaling pathways in cancer-associated fibroblasts and targeted therapy for cancer

F Wu, J Yang, J Liu, Y Wang, J Mu, Q Zeng… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
To flourish, cancers greatly depend on their surrounding tumor microenvironment (TME),
and cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in TME are critical for cancer occurrence and …

Roles of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy for solid cancers

L Pei, Y Liu, L Liu, S Gao, X Gao, Y Feng, Z Sun… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, breakthroughs have been made in tumor immunotherapy. However, tumor
immunotherapy, particularly anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors, is effective in …

Cancer associated-fibroblast-derived exosomes in cancer progression

C Li, AF Teixeira, HJ Zhu, P Ten Dijke - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
To identify novel cancer therapies, the tumor microenvironment (TME) has received a lot of
attention in recent years in particular with the advent of clinical successes achieved by …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts: Origin, function, imaging, and therapeutic targeting

R Rimal, P Desai, R Daware, A Hosseinnejad… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is emerging as one of the primary barriers in cancer
therapy. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) are a common inhabitant of the TME in several …

Massively parallel single-cell mitochondrial DNA genotyping and chromatin profiling

CA Lareau, LS Ludwig, C Muus, SH Gohil, T Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Natural mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations enable the inference of clonal relationships
among cells. mtDNA can be profiled along with measures of cell state, but has not yet been …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts and resistance to anticancer therapies: status, mechanisms, and countermeasures

B Feng, J Wu, B Shen, F Jiang, J Feng - Cancer Cell International, 2022 - Springer
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are critical components of the tumor microenvironment
(TME) with diverse functions such as extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling, modulation of …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts require proline synthesis by PYCR1 for the deposition of pro-tumorigenic extracellular matrix

EJ Kay, K Paterson, C Riera-Domingo, D Sumpton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Elevated production of collagen-rich extracellular matrix is a hallmark of cancer-associated
fibroblasts (CAFs) and a central driver of cancer aggressiveness. Here we find that proline, a …

Cancer-associated fibroblasts—heroes or villains?

KA Gieniec, LM Butler, DL Worthley… - British journal of cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) were originally presumed to represent a
homogeneous population uniformly driving tumorigenesis, united by their morphology and …

Targeting angiogenesis in breast cancer: current evidence and future perspectives of novel anti-angiogenic approaches

NM Ayoub, SK Jaradat, KM Al-Shami… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Angiogenesis is a vital process for the growth and dissemination of solid cancers. Numerous
molecular pathways are known to drive angiogenic switch in cancer cells promoting the …

Extracellular matrices and cancer-associated fibroblasts: targets for cancer diagnosis and therapy?

I Belhabib, S Zaghdoudi, C Lac, C Bousquet, C Jean - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Stroma modifications observed in solid cancer are now recognized as
critical events for cancer progression and as potential therapeutic or diagnostic targets. The …