Human Breast Cancer Tissue Stained by Immunofluorescence (image)

Jackson Laboratory

Caption

Human breast cancer tissue stained by immunofluorescence illustrates the interplay between secreted and surface-bound TGFβ (red) expressed by cancer cells (blue), which primes tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells to produce IL1β (green). This in turn will lead to chronic inflammation associated with breast cancer progression. Gray, nuclei.

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Jackson Laboratory

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