Why the study?
The detailed mechanisms by which hypertrophic adipose tissue in obesity influences breast cancer cells were not well understood.
Population
TNBC cells exposed to adipose tissue from obese C57BL/6 mice or ACM from obese female patients
Design
Preclinical in vitro co-culture and mechanistic study
Authors
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Obesity-adipose effects on TNBC transcriptomes merit patient validation; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Factors released by hypertrophic adipose tissue promote a more aggressive phenotype in triple-negative breast cancer cells via PPAR-regulated lipid metabolism and FAK signaling.
Blücher et al. (2020) studied this question.