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ReviewCurrent opinion in cell biology2025

Cancer-associated fibroblasts as mediators of tissue microenvironment remodeling in cancer.

Fernanda G Kugeratski, Emily J Kay, Sara Zanivan

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Review in Current opinion in cell biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. RBX1Cancers · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fernanda G KugeratskiThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Houston, TX, 77054, USA. Electronic address: fkugeratski@mdanderson.org.
Emily J KayCancer Research UK Scotland Institute, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.
Sara ZanivanThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Houston, TX, 77054, USA. Electronic address: srzanivan@mdanderson.org.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 29800
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a multifunctional cell population of solid tumors that substantially remodel the tumor microenvironment (TME). The combination of single-cell and spatial technologies with elegant mouse models and analysis of patient samples is enabling unprecedented advances in the characterization of CAF origins, heterogeneity, and functions within the TME. As such, the field is now evolving to delineate tissue-specific subpopulations of CAFs, their markers, and the biological context in which each subset presents with a tumor-promoting or a tumor-restraining function. In this timely review, we discuss recent advances in CAF biology in the context of emerging areas of interest in the field of anticancer therapy: immunotherapy, metabolism, and extracellular vesicles. We also highlight the substantial role of CAFs in modulating the immune microenvironment and the recent advances in targeting CAFs for cancer treatment.

Indexed as

Cancer-Associated FibroblastsNeoplasmsTumor MicroenvironmentAnimalsExtracellular VesiclesHumansImmunotherapy

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PMID40663954
PMCPMC7617980

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