Macrophages consuming dying cancer cells and releasing inflammatory cytokines (IMAGE)

Nagoya University

Macrophages consuming dying cancer cells and releasing inflammatory cytokines

Caption

Macrophages (blue) accumulate around tumor tissue (green) in fruit flies. Both macrophages and cancer cells produce the inflammatory cytokine Upd3 (magenta). Dying cancer cells indicated by white arrowheads have just been consumed by macrophages.

Credit

Hirooka et al., 2025

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