Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Cancer-associated fibroblast heterogeneity in axillary lymph nodes drives metastases in breast cancer through complementary mechanisms

  • Floriane Pelon,
  • Brigitte Bourachot,
  • Yann Kieffer,
  • Ilaria Magagna,
  • Fanny Mermet-Meillon,
  • Isabelle Bonnet,
  • Ana Costa,
  • Anne-Marie Givel,
  • Youmna Attieh,
  • Jorge Barbazan,
  • Claire Bonneau,
  • Laetitia Fuhrmann,
  • Stéphanie Descroix,
  • Danijela Vignjevic,
  • Pascal Silberzan,
  • Maria Carla Parrini,
  • Anne Vincent-Salomon,
  • Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14134-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Cancer associated fibroblasts are known to promote the progression of cancer. Here, the authors show that two particular subsets of cancer associated fibroblasts induce metastasis but work via distinct mechanisms including, chemokine signalling and Notch signalling.