Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

High endogenous CCL2 expression promotes the aggressive phenotype of human inflammatory breast cancer

  • Anita Rogic,
  • Ila Pant,
  • Luca Grumolato,
  • Ruben Fernandez-Rodriguez,
  • Andrew Edwards,
  • Suvendu Das,
  • Aaron Sun,
  • Shen Yao,
  • Rui Qiao,
  • Shabnam Jaffer,
  • Ravi Sachidanandam,
  • Guray Akturk,
  • Rosa Karlic,
  • Mihaela Skobe,
  • Stuart A. Aaronson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27108-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer with a poor prognosis. Here the authors report the characterization of a human IBC cell line recapitulating the clinical and histopathological features of the human disease, and implicating its high level of CCL2 in macrophage infiltration and tumor progression.