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Sympathetic nervous system regulation of the tumour microenvironment
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Sympathetic nervous system regulation of the tumour microenvironment

Steven W Cole, Archana S Nagaraja, Susan K Lutgendorf, Paige A Green and Anil K Sood
Nature reviews. Cancer, Vol.15(9), pp.563-572
09/2015
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3978
PMCID: PMC4828959
PMID: 26299593

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Abstract

The peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) is known to regulate gene expression in primary tumours and their surrounding microenvironment. Activation of the sympathetic division of the ANS in particular modulates gene expression programmes that promote metastasis of solid tumours by stimulating macrophage infiltration, inflammation, angiogenesis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition and tumour invasion, and by inhibiting cellular immune responses and programmed cell death. Haematological cancers are modulated by sympathetic nervous system (SNS) regulation of stem cell biology and haematopoietic differentiation programmes. In addition to identifying a molecular basis for physiologic stress effects on cancer, these findings have also identified new pharmacological strategies to inhibit cancer progression in vivo.
Cell Differentiation Neoplasms - therapy Neoplasms - genetics Humans Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic Neovascularization, Pathologic Tumor Microenvironment Sympathetic Nervous System - pathology Neoplasms - pathology

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