Haematopoietic stem cell activity and interactions with the niche

S Pinho, PS Frenette - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) microenvironment in the bone marrow, termed the
niche, ensures haematopoietic homeostasis by controlling the proliferation, self-renewal …

Bone marrow niches in haematological malignancies

S Méndez-Ferrer, D Bonnet, DP Steensma… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Haematological malignancies were previously thought to be driven solely by genetic or
epigenetic lesions within haematopoietic cells. However, the niches that maintain and …

CD4+ T cells contribute to neurodegeneration in Lewy body dementia

D Gate, E Tapp, O Leventhal, M Shahid, TJ Nonninger… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent studies indicate that the adaptive immune system plays a role in Lewy body
dementia (LBD). However, the mechanism regulating T cell brain homing in LBD is …

Chemokines and chemokine receptors: new targets for cancer immunotherapy

V Mollica Poeta, M Massara, A Capucetti… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy is a clinically validated treatment for many cancers to boost the immune
system against tumor growth and dissemination. Several strategies are used to harness …

Leukaemia: a model metastatic disease

AE Whiteley, TT Price, G Cantelli, DA Sipkins - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
In contrast to solid cancers, which often require genetic modifications and complex cellular
reprogramming for effective metastatic dissemination, leukaemic cells uniquely possess the …

Chemokine-directed tumor microenvironment modulation in cancer immunotherapy

P Bule, SI Aguiar, F Aires-Da-Silva… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chemokines are a large family of small chemotactic cytokines that coordinates immune cell
trafficking. In cancer, they have a pivotal role in the migration pattern of immune cells into the …

Tumor microenvironment mechanisms and bone metastatic disease progression of prostate cancer

J Kang, F La Manna, F Bonollo, N Sampson, IL Alberts… - Cancer letters, 2022 - Elsevier
During disease progression from primary towards metastatic prostate cancer (PCa), and in
particular bone metastases, the tumor microenvironment (TME) evolves in parallel with the …

The intricate role of CXCR4 in cancer

S Chatterjee, BB Azad, S Nimmagadda - Advances in cancer research, 2014 - Elsevier
Chemokines mediate numerous physiological and pathological processes related primarily
to cell homing and migration. The chemokine CXCL12, also known as stromal cell-derived …

CXCL12/CXCR4: a symbiotic bridge linking cancer cells and their stromal neighbors in oncogenic communication networks

F Guo, Y Wang, J Liu, SC Mok, F Xue, W Zhang - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Increasing evidence indicates that the tumor microenvironment has critical roles in all
aspects of cancer biology, including growth, angiogenesis, metastasis and progression …

Normal and leukemic stem cell niches: insights and therapeutic opportunities

K Schepers, TB Campbell, E Passegué - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) rely on instructive cues from the bone marrow (BM) niche
to maintain their quiescence and adapt blood production to the organism's needs …