Model organisms in inflammation and cancer

• Main Author: Yiorgos Apidianakis (auth)
• Other Authors: Dominique Ferrandon (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: microbiota; mouse; innate immunity; Drosophila; diet; aging; human; Hologenome
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A link between inflammation and cancer was initially made by Rudolf Virchow back in the 19th century. Nowadays many cancers are considered dependent on inflammatory responses to microbial and damaged-self stimuli and both arms of immunity, innate and adaptive, are playing a role in promoting cancer....