Francesca Lorenzini, Johanna Marines, Julien Le Friec, Nam Do Khoa, Maria Angela Nieto, Berta Sanchez-Laorden, Maria Caterina Mione, Laura Fontenille, Karima Kissa
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Abstract
The tumor microenvironment, including the peripheral nervous system, plays a key role in regulating tumor biology, from initiation to cancer progression. Here, by modeling aggressive melanoma in larval zebrafish xenografts, we shed light on the dynamics of tumor innervation in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Axonogenesis and dendritogenesis were detected in the neurons surrounding the melanoma niche and neurogenesis was observed in the nearby population of the enteric nervous system. We also demonstrate the crucial role of noradrenaline in promoting melanoma progression with the dissemination and invasion of cancer cells to distant tissues. This zebrafish model will allow to uncover neural markers associated with melanoma progression to help in the design of innovative anti-neurogenic therapies targeting specifically the neuronal signals that regulate melanoma progression.
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Cell Death Discovery is a multidisciplinary, international, online-only, open access journal, dedicated to publishing research at the intersection of medicine with biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, cell biology and cell death, provided it is scientifically sound. The unrestricted access to research findings in Cell Death Discovery will foster a dynamic and highly productive dialogue between basic scientists and clinicians, as well as researchers in industry with a focus on cancer, neurobiology and inflammation research. As an official journal of the Cell Death Differentiation Association (ADMC), Cell Death Discovery will build upon the success of Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease in publishing important peer-reviewed original research, timely reviews and editorial commentary.
Cell Death Discovery is committed to increasing the reproducibility of research. To this end, in conjunction with its sister journals Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease, Cell Death Discovery provides a unique forum for scientists as well as clinicians and members of the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industry. It is committed to the rapid publication of high quality original papers that relate to these subjects, together with topical, usually solicited, reviews, editorial correspondence and occasional commentaries on controversial and scientifically informative issues.