Obesity exacerbates colitis-associated cancer via IL-6-regulated macrophage polarisation and CCL-20/CCR-6-mediated lymphocyte recruitment

Inflammation can be induced by obesity, and has been linked with onset of colorectal cancer (CAC). Here the authors show in mouse models that obesity-induced interleukin-6 alters macrophage function to enhance CCL-20/CCR-6-mediated recruitment of B cells and γδ T cells, thereby promoting gut inflamm...

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Main Authors: Claudia M. Wunderlich, P. Justus Ackermann, Anna Lena Ostermann, Petra Adams-Quack, Merly C. Vogt, My-Ly Tran, Alexei Nikolajev, Ari Waisman, Christoph Garbers, Sebastian Theurich, Jan Mauer, Nadine Hövelmeyer, F. Thomas Wunderlich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03773-0