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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-5
pubmed:abstractText
An association between inflammation and cancer has long been recognized, but the cause and effect relationship linking the two remains unclear. Myc is a pleiotropic transcription factor that is overexpressed in many human cancers and instructs many extracellular aspects of the tumor tissue phenotype, including remodeling of tumor stroma and angiogenesis. Here we show in a beta-cell tumor model that activation of Myc in vivo triggers rapid recruitment of mast cells to the tumor site-a recruitment that is absolutely required for macroscopic tumor expansion. In addition, treatment of established beta-cell tumors with a mast cell inhibitor rapidly triggers hypoxia and cell death of tumor and endothelial cells. Inhibitors of mast cell function may therefore prove therapeutically useful in restraining expansion and survival of pancreatic and other cancers.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1078-8956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1211-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Bone Marrow Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Chemokine CCL2, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Chemokine CCL5, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Femur, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Mast Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Neovascularization, Pathologic, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Pancreatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17906636-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Mast cells are required for angiogenesis and macroscopic expansion of Myc-induced pancreatic islet tumors.
pubmed:affiliation
Cancer Research Institute and Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, 2340 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California 94143-0875, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural