New Molecular Research and Perspective: Microbiota and Cancer
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 2925
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human tumor angiogenesis; innate immune cells in the tumor microenvironment; natural killer cells and macrophages in human cancers; evaluating novel immunotherapeutic interventions based on immunocitokynes TNF and IL-2, in combination setting against tumor development and metastasis in preclinical tumor murine models.
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2. Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, IRCCS-Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, 20097 Milan, Italy
Interests: tumor microenvironment; angiogenesis; natural killer cells; tumor biology; extracellular vesicles; immunology; non-coding RNAs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The microbiota plays fundamental roles in the initiation, progression and therapy of cancer. This fact has been investigated, in particular, in the case of the intestinal microbiota but also for communities of microorganisms that colonize other districts of the body. In fact, the study of the interaction between microbiota and cancer has become, in only a few years, an extremely articulated field of investigation. In this Special Issue, we propose to investigate two aspects in particular: a) the study of the specific presence of particular species/strains of microbiota in the TME, even in tumors that originate in tissues commonly thought to be sterile, such as breast cancer; b) the microbiota ability to modulate neoangiogenesis in different pathological contexts, in particular, in the tumorigenesis. However, we invite authors to submit contributions in other investigative subareas as well. In particular, those of translational interests, thus the role of the microbiota in cancer chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Dr. Lorenzo Mortara
Dr. Denisa Baci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer
- microbiota/microbiome
- tumor microenvironment
- symbiosis
- angiogenesis
- inflammatory cells
- metastasis
- immunotherapies
