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Yang, Xiaoqin ; Lu, Peirong ; Fujii, Chifumi ; Nakamoto, Yasunari ; Gao, Ji Liang ; Kaneko, Shuichi ; Murphy, Philip M. ; Mukaida, Naofumi
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金沢大学がん研究所がん病態制御<br />We previously observed that a chemokine, macrophage inflammatory protein-1 α/CCL3, and its receptor
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, CCR1, were aberrantly expressed in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tissues. Here, we show that CCL3 and CCR1 are also expressed in 2 different models of this cancer; N-nitrosodiethylamine (DEN)-induced HCC and HCC induced by hepatitis B virus surface (HBs) antigen-primed splenocyte transfer to myelo-ablated syngeneic HBs antigen transgenic mice. At 10 months after DEN treatment, foci number and sizes were remarkably reduced in CCR1- and CCL3-deficient mice, compared with those of wild-type (WT) mice, although tumor incidence were marginally, but significantly, higher in CCR1- and CCL3-deficient mice than in WT mice. Of note is that tumor angiogenesis was also markedly diminished in CCL3- and CCR1-deficient mice, with a concomitant reduction in the number of intratumoral Kupffer cells, a rich source of growth factors and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Among growth factors and MMPs that we examined, only MMP9 and MMP13 gene expression was augmented progressively in liver of WT mice after DEN treatment. Moreover, MMP9, but not MMP13, gene expression was attenuated in CCR1- and CCL3-deficient mice, compared with that of WT mice. Furthermore, MMP9 was expressed mainly by mononuclear cells but not hepatoma cells, and MMP9-expressing cell numbers were decreased in CCR1- or CCL3-deficient mice, compared with WT mice. These observations suggest the contribution of the CCR1-CCL3 axis to HCC progression. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Yang, Xiaoqin ; Lu, Peirong ; Ishida, Yuko ; Kuziel, William A. ; Fujii, Chifumi ; Mukaida, Naofumi
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金沢大学がん研究所がん病態制御<br />The liver parenchyma is populated by hepatocytes and several nonparenchymal cell types, including K
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upffer cells and hepatic stellate cells. Both Kupffer cells and hepatic stellate cells are responsive to the chemokine CCL2, but the precise roles of CCL2 and these cells in liver tumor formation remain undefined. Hence, we investigated the effects of the lack of the major CCL2 receptor, CCR2, on liver tumor formation induced by intraportal injection of the murine colon adenocarcinoma cell line, colon 26. Wild-type mice showed macroscopic tumor foci in the liver 10 days after injection of colon 26 cells. After 10 days, CCL2 proteins were detected predominantly in tumor cells, coincident with increased intratumoral macrophage and hepatic stellate cell numbers. Although tumor formation occurred at similar rates in wild-type and CCR2-deficient mice up to 10 days after tumor cell injection, the number and size of tumor foci were significantly attenuated in CCR2-deficient mice relative to wild-type mice thereafter. Moreover, neovascularization and matrix metalloproteinase 2 expression were diminished in CCR2-deficient mice with a concomitant reduction in the accumulation of macrophages and hepatic stellate cells. Furthermore, matrix metalloproteinase 2 was detected predominantly in hepatic stellate cells but not in macrophages. We provided the first definitive evidence that the absence of CCR2-mediated signals can reduce the trafficking of hepatic stellate cells, a main source of matrix metalloproteinase 2, and consequently can diminish neovascularization during liver tumor formation. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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Mukaida, Naofumi
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Chemokines are a family of structurally related cytokines with four cysteines at their well-conserved positions. Most ch
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emokines are secreted proteins with a molecular weight about 10. kDa and their α helix structure at carboxyl-terminal portion is responsible for preferential binding to proteoglycans on the vascular endothelial cells and to extracellular matrix proteins. Chemokine receptors comprise a large branch of the rhodopsin family of cell-surface G-protein-coupled receptors with seven-transmembrane domains. Chemokines bind their corresponding receptors, thereby modulating the movement and functions of their target cells, particularly leukocyte trafficking, under physiological and pathological conditions. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<br />[Book Chapter]
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Mukaida, Naofumi ; Sasaki, So-ichiro
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Tumor microenvironments have a crucial role in cancer initiation and progression, and share many molecular and pathologi
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cal features with wound healing process. Unless treated, tumors, however, do not heal in contrast to wounds that heal within a limited time framework. Wounds heal in coordination of a myriad of types of cells, particularly endothelial cells, leukocytes, and fibroblasts. Similar sets of cells also contribute to cancer initiation and progression, and as a consequence, anti-cancer treatment strategies have been proposed and tested by targeting endothelial cells and/or leukocytes. Compared with endothelial cells and leukocytes, less attention has been paid to the roles of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), fibroblasts present in tumor tissues, because their heterogeneity hinders the elucidation on them at cellular and molecular levels. Here, we will discuss the origin of CAFs and their crucial roles in cancer initiation and progression, and the possibility to develop a novel type of anti-cancer treatment by manipulating the migration and functions of CAFs. © 2016 Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
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