Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

The tumour microenvironment shapes dendritic cell plasticity in a human organotypic melanoma culture

  • S. Di Blasio,
  • G. F. van Wigcheren,
  • A. Becker,
  • A. van Duffelen,
  • M. Gorris,
  • K. Verrijp,
  • I. Stefanini,
  • G. J. Bakker,
  • M. Bloemendal,
  • A. Halilovic,
  • A. Vasaturo,
  • G. Bakdash,
  • S. V. Hato,
  • J. H. W. de Wilt,
  • J. Schalkwijk,
  • I. J. M. de Vries,
  • J. C. Textor,
  • E. H. van den Bogaard,
  • M. Tazzari,
  • C. G. Figdor

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16583-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Conventional co-culture systems often lack physiological complexity of the tumor microenvironment. Here, the authors report an organotypic skin melanoma culture and use this model to investigate the tumor induced suppression on dendritic cells.