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Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: Understanding Their Heterogeneity
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Louault, Kévin Li, Rong-Rong Declerck, Yves A. |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | The tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a critical role in tumor progression. Among its multiple components are cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) that are the main suppliers of extracellular matrix molecules and important contributors to inflammation. As a source of growth factors, cytokines, chemokines and other regulatory molecules, they participate in cancer progression, metastasis, angiogenesis, immune cell reprogramming and therapeutic resistance. Nevertheless, their role is not fully understood, and is sometimes controversial due to their heterogeneity. CAFs are heterogeneous in their origin, phenotype, function and presence within tumors. As a result, strategies to target CAFs in cancer therapy have been hampered by the difficulties in better defining the various populations of CAFs and by the lack of clear recognition of their specific function in cancer progression. This review discusses how a greater understanding of the heterogeneous nature of CAFs could lead to better approaches aimed at their use or at their targeting in the treatment of cancer. |
| Starting Page | 3108 |
| e-ISSN | 20726694 |
| DOI | 10.3390/cancers12113108 |
| Journal | Cancers |
| Issue Number | 11 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-10-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Cancers Cell Tissue Engineering Cancer-associated Fibroblasts (cafs) Tumor Microenvironment (tme) Heterogeneity Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (mscs) Cancer Biomarkers |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
