Model organisms in inflammation and cancer

• 1. Verfasser: Yiorgos Apidianakis (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Dominique Ferrandon (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Schriftenreihe: Frontiers Research Topics
• Schlagworte: microbiota; mouse; innate immunity; Drosophila; diet; aging; human; Hologenome
• Online-Zugang: 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....