Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

STING suppresses bone cancer pain via immune and neuronal modulation

  • Kaiyuan Wang,
  • Christopher R. Donnelly,
  • Changyu Jiang,
  • Yihan Liao,
  • Xin Luo,
  • Xueshu Tao,
  • Sangsu Bang,
  • Aidan McGinnis,
  • Michael Lee,
  • Matthew J. Hilton,
  • Ru-Rong Ji

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24867-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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There is an unmet clinical need to develop therapies to alleviate metastatic bone pain, frequently observed in patients with advanced cancers. Here, using mouse models of bone cancer pain, the authors show that STING agonists not only suppress bone cancer tumor burden, but also attenuate bone pain and reduce cancer-induced bone destruction.