Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Tumour-associated macrophages exhibit anti-tumoural properties in Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma

  • Victor Maximov,
  • Zhihong Chen,
  • Yun Wei,
  • M. Hope Robinson,
  • Cameron J. Herting,
  • Nithya S. Shanmugam,
  • Vasilisa A. Rudneva,
  • Kelly C. Goldsmith,
  • Tobey J. MacDonald,
  • Paul A. Northcott,
  • Dolores Hambardzumyan,
  • Anna M. Kenney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10458-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The Sonic Hedgehog subgroup of medulloblastoma are characterised by the high infiltration of tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs). Here, the authors show that TAM numbers in patients are associated with better prognosis and that, consistently, in a murine model of medulloblastoma, these TAMs have anti-tumoural properties.