ReviewFrontiers in oncology2021
The Role of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and the Value of Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment.
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- Metabolic reprogramming in hepatocellular carcinoma: mechanisms of immune evasion and therapeutic implications.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts/tumor cells cross-talk inhibits intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma progression via cell-cycle arrest.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2024Article
- Heterogeneity and interplay: the multifaceted role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in the tumor and therapeutic strategies.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Review
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- Deciphering the underlying mechanism of liver diseases through utilization of multicellular hepatic spheroid models.BMB reports · 2023Review
- Exosomal cargos-mediated metabolic reprogramming in tumor microenvironment.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2023Review
- Tumor Mutational Burden for Predicting Prognosis and Therapy Outcome of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Reveal the mechanisms of prescriptions for liver cancer' treatment based on two illustrious senior TCM physicians.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2023Article
- Network Pharmacology Combined with Experimental Validation Reveals the Anti-tumor Effect ofJournal of Cancer · 2023Article
- Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma.Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology · 2023Review
- RAB42 is a Potential Biomarker that Correlates With Immune Infiltration in Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Article
- Systematic analysis of the role and significance of target genes of active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine injections in the progression and immune microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Overcoming the therapeutic resistance of hepatomas by targeting the tumor microenvironment.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Invasion and metastasis are the main reasons for the high mortality of liver cancer, which involve the interaction of tumor stromal cells and malignant cells. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are one of the major constituents of tumor stromal cells affecting tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis. The heterogeneous properties and sources of CAFs make both tumor-supporting and tumor-suppression effects possible. The mechanisms for CAFs in supporting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression can be categorized into upregulated aggressiveness and stemness, transformed metabolism toward glycolysis and glutamine reductive carboxylation, polarized tumor immunity toward immune escape of HCC cells, and increased angiogenesis. The tumor-suppressive effect of fibroblasts highlights the functional heterogenicity of CAF populations and provides new insights into tumor-stromal interplay mechanisms. In this review, we introduced several key inflammatory signaling pathways in the transformation of CAFs from normal stromal cells and the heterogeneous biofunctions of activated CAFs. In view of the pleiotropic regulation properties of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and heterogeneous effects of CAFs, we also introduced the application and values of TCM in the treatment of HCC through targeting CAFs.
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