ArticleCancers2021
Tumor-Derived Factors Differentially Affect the Recruitment and Plasticity of Neutrophils.
Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- NETosis-Dependent Generation of Immunodeficient Low-Density Neutrophils Exacerbates Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Tumor-associated neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps in lung cancer: antitumor/protumor insights and therapeutic implications.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025Review
- Therapeutic potential of tumor-associated neutrophils: dual role and phenotypic plasticity.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Review
- Dynamic Neutrophil Subsets and Function in Lung Transplant Recipients: Insights from a One-Year Longitudinal Pilot Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- [Research Progress of Tumor-associated Neutrophils in the Occurrence and Development of Lung Cancer].Zhongguo fei ai za zhi = Chinese journal of lung cancer · 2025Review
- Tumor-associated neutrophils in breast cancer: an angel or a devil?Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Tumor-Intrinsic Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Controls Immune Cell Infiltration, Tumor Growth, and Lung Metastasis in a Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Diverse Neutrophil Functions in Cancer and Promising Neutrophil-Based Cancer Therapies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Chemokine Homeostasis in Healthy Volunteers and during Pancreatic and Colorectal Tumor Growth in Murine Models.Current issues in molecular biology · 2022Article
- The Bilateral Interplay between Cancer Immunotherapies and Neutrophils' Phenotypes and Sub-Populations.Cells · 2022Article
- Chemokines as Regulators of Neutrophils: Focus on Tumors, Therapeutic Targeting, and Immunotherapy.Cancers · 2022Review
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Abstract
Neutrophils play a key role in cancer biology. In contrast to circulating normal-density neutrophils (NDN), the amount of low-density neutrophils (LDN) significantly increases with tumor progression. The correlation between these neutrophil subpopulations and intratumoral neutrophils (TANs) is still under debate. Using 4T1 (breast) and AB12 (mesothelioma) tumor models, we aimed to elucidate the source of TANs and to assess the mechanisms driving neutrophils' plasticity in cancer. Both NDN and LDN were found to migrate in response to CXCL1 and CXCL2 exposure, and co-infiltrate the tumor site ex vivo and in vivo, although LDN migration into the tumor was higher than NDN. Tumor-derived factors and chemokines, particularly CXCL1, were found to drive neutrophil phenotypical plasticity, inducing NDN to transition towards a low-density state (LD-NDN). LD-NDN appeared to differ from NDN by displaying a phenotypical profile similar to LDN in terms of nuclear morphology, surface receptor markers, decreased phagocytic abilities, and increased ROS production. Interestingly, all three subpopulations displayed comparable cytotoxic abilities towards tumor cells. Our data suggest that TANs originate from both LDN and NDN, and that a portion of LDN derives from NDN undergoing phenotypical changes. NDN plasticity resulted in a change in surface marker expression and functional activity, gaining characteristics of LDN.
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