Chronic inflammation and the development of malignancy in the GI tract

Fichtner-Feigl, Stefan and Kesselring, Rebecca and Strober, Warren (2015) Chronic inflammation and the development of malignancy in the GI tract. TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY, 36 (8). pp. 451-459. ISSN 1471-4906, 1471-4981

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Abstract

The role of immunologic factors in the development of gastrointestinal (GI) neoplasia, made evident from the high degree of association of chronic intestinal or gastric inflammation with the development of cancer, has attracted much attention because it promises new ways of treating disease. Here we develop the idea that immunologic factors influence the appearance of GI cancer on two levels: (i) a basic and initiating level during which the epithelial cell is induced to undergo pre-cancerous molecular changes that render it prone to further cancer progression; and (ii) a secondary level that builds on this vulnerability and drives the cell into frank malignancy. This secondary level is uniquely dependent on a single epithelial cell signaling pathway centered on STAT3, and it is this pathway upon which stimulation of mucosal cytokine production and microbiota effects converge.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; ACUTE APOPTOTIC RESPONSE; INDUCED COLON TUMORS; COLORECTAL-CANCER; INTESTINAL NEOPLASIA; ULCERATIVE-COLITIS; SIGNALING PATHWAY; BOWEL-DISEASE; MOUSE MODEL; DNA-DAMAGE;
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Chirurgie
Medicine > Zentren des Universitätsklinikums Regensburg > Regensburger Centrum für Interventionelle Immunologie (RCI)
Depositing User: Petra Gürster
Date Deposited: 25 Aug 2020 06:24
Last Modified: 25 Aug 2020 06:24
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/5099

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