About this Research Topic
This Research Topic aims to reveal the molecular and immune mechanisms of various gastrointestinal cancers including colon cancer, liver cancer, and pancreatic cancer. We are especially interested in the changes and mechanisms of the tissue epithelial cells that induce and promote the diseases (including gene mutations, stemness changes, signaling pathway changes, metabolic changes), as well as the changes of the immune microenvironment at the initiation stage of disease induction. Studies using animal models and/or clinical specimens are particularly welcomed. We hope that by exploring the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal cancers at a systematic level we could shed some light on the prevention of these diseases.
We welcome submissions related to but not limited to the following sub-topics:
• The epithelial cell changes that can induce gastrointestinal cancers and the molecular mechanisms, including gene mutations, stemness changes, signaling pathway changes, and metabolic changes;
• The immune microenvironment changes that can induce gastrointestinal cancers and the involved mechanisms, including changes of immune cell subsets in the microenvironment, including changes in the number and function of immune cells, and changes of immune cytokines in microenvironment;
• Synergism between epithelial cell changes and immune microenvironment changes which induces and promotes gastrointestinal tumors, including regulation of epithelial cell changes on immune microenvironment and effect of immune microenvironment on tissue epithelial cells.
Keywords: gastrointestinal cancers, molecular mechanisms, immune mechanisms, epithelial cells, immune microenvironment
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