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Fibroblasts Attenuate Anti-Tumor Drug Efficacy in Tumor Cells via Paracrine Interactions with Tumor Cells in 3D Plexiform Neurofibroma Cultures.

Kyungmin Ji, George J Schwenkel

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Article in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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2 authors.

Kyungmin JiDepartment of Neurology, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7336-265X
George J SchwenkelDepartment of Neurology, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, MI 48202, USA.

Funding

a Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program New Investigator Award W81XWH-22-1-0564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plexiform neurofibromas (hereafter called pNF1) are often diagnosed in early childhood and occur in about 30% of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) patients. pNF1 exhibits aggressive growth along a nerve in the body and has substantial potential for progression to malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors that are rarely curable. There are two recently FDA-approved drugs, selumetinib and mirdametinib, for pNF1 patients who have symptomatic and inoperable plexiform neurofibromas; however, these treatments achieve only approximately 30% tumor shrinkage. Fibroblasts, the most abundant cell types within the pNF1 tumor microenvironment, are implicated in pNF1 growth and invasion; however, how fibroblasts affect a drug response of pNF1 remains poorly understood. In the present study, we focused on contributions of fibroblasts to the drug resistance in pNF1 via their secretome. We employed our established three-dimensional (3D) culture system incorporating human pNF1 tumor cells (

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Antineoplastic AgentsFibroblastsNeurofibroma, PlexiformParacrine CommunicationCell Culture Techniques, Three DimensionalCell Line, TumorDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansNeurofibromatosis 1Tumor MicroenvironmentAntineoplastic Agents3D culturesdrug resistancefibroblastsplexiform neurofibromas

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PMID40862755
PMCPMC12384539

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