Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Macrophages are exploited from an innate wound healing response to facilitate cancer metastasis

  • Tamara Muliaditan,
  • Jonathan Caron,
  • Mary Okesola,
  • James W. Opzoomer,
  • Paris Kosti,
  • Mirella Georgouli,
  • Peter Gordon,
  • Sharanpreet Lall,
  • Desislava M. Kuzeva,
  • Luisa Pedro,
  • Jacqueline D. Shields,
  • Cheryl E. Gillett,
  • Sandra S. Diebold,
  • Victoria Sanz-Moreno,
  • Tony Ng,
  • Esther Hoste,
  • James N. Arnold

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05346-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The relationship between wound healing and cancer is intricate and complex. Here, the authors show that in breast cancer models an IL-6 driven co-expression of FAP and HO-1 in tumour-associated macrophages, similar to the wound healing response, facilitates migration and metastatic spread.