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Hijacked Pathway Contributes to Cancer Spread

 
  January, 13 2009 18:23
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Lung cancer cells hijack immune system signalling pathways to stimulate metastasis, a Nature paper suggests. The finding indicates new targets for cancer therapy.

Metastatic lung cancer cells secrete a protein, called versican that activates debris-scavenging macrophages and stimulates bone marrow cells to produce the inflammatory protein TNF-alpha. This enhances metastatic growth, Michael Karin and colleagues report. Components of this signalling pathway could be blocked to slow metastasis spread, the authors suggest.

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Michael Karin (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
E-mail: karinoffice@ucsd.edu

(C) Nature press release.


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