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. 2020 Nov 3;5(1):257.
doi: 10.1038/s41392-020-00386-2.

A high-fat diet: an unexpected role in preventing the metastatic seeding of colorectal cancer

Min Long  1 , Wenjing Wang  1 , Qiu Sun  2
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A high-fat diet: an unexpected role in preventing the metastatic seeding of colorectal cancer

Min Long et al. Signal Transduct Target Ther. .
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A high-fat diet (HFD) stimulates the activation of adipose tissue macrophages (ATMs) from M2 to M1 and induces proinflammatory cytokine expression in a TLR4-dependent manner to suppress colorectal cancer (CRC) cell metastasis in the early stage (Created with BioRender.com)
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