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Arginase inhibition suppresses lung metastasis in the 4T1 breast cancer model independently of the immunomodulatory and anti-metastatic effects of VEGFR-2 blockade

Secondini, Chiara ; Coquoz, Oriana ; Spagnuolo, Lorenzo ; Spinetti, Thibaud ; Peyvandi, Sanam ; Ciarloni, Laura ; Botta, Francesca ; Bourquin, Carole ; Rüegg, Curzio

In: OncoImmunology, 2017, vol. 6, no. 6, p. e1316437

Tumor angiogenesis promotes tumor growth and metastasis. Anti-angiogenic therapy in combination with chemotherapy is used for the treatment of metastatic cancers, including breast cancer but therapeutic benefits are limited. Mobilization and accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) during tumor progression and therapy have been implicated in metastasis formation and resistance to...

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Emerging paradigms and questions on pro-angiogenic bone marrow-derived myelomonocytic cells

Laurent, Julien ; Touvrey, Cédric ; Botta, Francesca ; Kuonen, François ; Rüegg, Curzio

In: The International Journal of Developmental Biology, 2011, vol. 55, p. 527-534

Cancer-related inflammation has emerged in recent years as a major event contributing to tumor angiogenesis, tumor progression and metastasis formation. Bone marrow-derived and inflammatory cells promote tumor angiogenesis by providing endothelial progenitor cells that differentiate into mature endothelial cells, and by secreting pro-angiogenic factors and remodeling the extracellular matrix...