Obesity and cancer: inflammation bridges the two

R Kolb, FS Sutterwala, W Zhang - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2016 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Ryan Kolb 1 , Fayyaz S Sutterwala 6 , Weizhou Zhang 1 2 3
… AS Ryan, DM Berman, BJ Nicklas, M. Sinha, RL Gingerich, GS Meneilly, JM Egan, D. Elahi …

Inflammasomes in cancer: a double-edged sword

R Kolb, GH Liu, AM Janowski, FS Sutterwala… - Protein & …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Chronic inflammatory responses have long been observed to be associated with various
types of cancer and play decisive roles at different stages of cancer development. …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity-associated NLRC4 inflammasome activation drives breast cancer progression

R Kolb, L Phan, N Borcherding, Y Liu, F Yuan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Obesity is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer and is also associated
with worse clinical prognosis. The mechanistic link between obesity and breast cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Updates on immunotherapy and immune landscape in renal clear cell carcinoma

MC Kim, Z Jin, R Kolb, N Borcherding, JA Chatzkel… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCC) have several distinct immunological
features, including a high degree of immune infiltration and relatively low mutational …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity and breast cancer: a case of inflamed adipose tissue

R Kolb, W Zhang - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Obesity is associated with an increased risk of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in
postmenopausal women and a worse prognosis for all major breast cancer subtypes …

[HTML][HTML] CD177 modulates the function and homeostasis of tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells

…, KK Ahmed, AP Voigt, A Vishwakarma, R Kolb… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are one of the major immunosuppressive cell types in cancer and
a potential target for immunotherapy, but targeting tumor-infiltrating (TI) Treg cells has been …

Obesity-associated inflammation promotes angiogenesis and breast cancer via angiopoietin-like 4

R Kolb, P Kluz, ZW Tan, N Borcherding, N Bormann… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer and also predicts poor clinical outcomes regardless
of menopausal status. Contributing to the poor clinical outcomes is the suboptimal efficacy of …

IL-1 signaling in tumor microenvironment

W Zhang, N Borcherding, R Kolb - … : The Role of Interleukins–Part A, 2020 - Springer
Interleukin 1 (IL-1) has long been known for its pleiotropic effects on inflammation that plays
a complex, and sometimes contrasting, role in different stages of cancer development. As a …

[HTML][HTML] Beneficial and detrimental roles of NLRs in carcinogenesis

AM Janowski, R Kolb, W Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Inflammation plays a critical role in tumorigenesis and can contribute to oncogenic mutations,
tumor promotion, and angiogenesis. Tumor-promoting inflammation is driven by many …

Paracrine WNT5A signaling inhibits expansion of tumor-initiating cells

N Borcherding, D Kusner, R Kolb, Q Xie, W Li, F Yuan… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
It is not well understood how paracrine communication between basal and luminal cell
populations in the mammary gland affects tumorigenesis. During ErbB2-induced mammary …