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SUBMITTER: Hosaka K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5798893 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hosaka Kayoko K Yang Yunlong Y Nakamura Masaki M Andersson Patrik P Yang Xiaojuan X Zhang Yin Y Seki Takahiro T Scherzer Martin M Dubey Olivier O Wang Xinsheng X Cao Yihai Y
Cell discovery 20180116
Perivascular cells are important cellular components in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and they modulate vascular integrity, remodeling, stability, and functions. Here we show using mice models that FGF-2 is a potent pericyte-stimulating factor in tumors. Mechanistically, FGF-2 binds to FGFR2 to stimulate pericyte proliferation and orchestrates the PDGFRβ signaling for vascular recruitment. FGF-2 sensitizes the PDGFRβ signaling through increasing PDGFRβ levels in pericytes. To ensure activatio ...[more]