Surrounding these epithelial cells is a microenvironment of supporting ... effects on lymphocytes and indirectly by tuning tumor-associated macrophages function.
Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...
In recent years, the tumor microenvironment (TME ... is densely populated by protumoral glioma-associated microglia and macrophages (GAMs),” the researchers found. “Myeloid immune checkpoint ...