The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
...and spread of cancer cells. Besides these stromal cell modifications, stromal cells are also constantly...how cancer cells influence microenvironments and vice versa, let’s take a look at cancer cell metabolism...inflammation, a noteworthy cell type in the tumor microenvironment is the immune cells. The contradiction is...injecting breast cancer cells into mice, exosomes expressed specific integrins (cell-adhesion proteins) targeting... be transferred to other cells, inducing epigenetic changes in targeted cells. In this case, exosomes ...Friendly” microenvironment cells
Not all is bad news – we also have “friendly” cells in microenvironments! ...Take myoepithelial cells for instance. They retard tumor formation by inhibiting cell growth, invasion,...