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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Quail DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759922 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature cell biology 20170724 8
Obesity is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation, which can disrupt homeostasis within tissue microenvironments. Given the correlation between obesity and relative risk of death from cancer, we investigated whether obesity-associated inflammation promotes metastatic progression. We demonstrate that obesity causes lung neutrophilia in otherwise normal mice, which is further exacerbated by the presence of a primary tumour. The increase in lung neutrophils translates to increased breast c ...[more]