Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Neural innervation stimulates splenic TFF2 to arrest myeloid cell expansion and cancer

  • Zina Dubeykovskaya,
  • Yiling Si,
  • Xiaowei Chen,
  • Daniel L. Worthley,
  • Bernhard W. Renz,
  • Aleksandra M. Urbanska,
  • Yoku Hayakawa,
  • Ting Xu,
  • C. Benedikt Westphalen,
  • Alexander Dubeykovskiy,
  • Duan Chen,
  • Richard A. Friedman,
  • Samuel Asfaha,
  • Karan Nagar,
  • Yagnesh Tailor,
  • Sureshkumar Muthupalani,
  • James G. Fox,
  • Jan Kitajewski,
  • Timothy C. Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10517
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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During colorectal inflammation and cancer, myeloid cells accumulate in the spleen and suppress the host immunity response. In this study, the authors use a mouse model of colitis to demonstrate that upon vagus stimulation splenic memory T cells release TFF2, which suppresses the expansion of myeloid cells and cancer progression.