Ana Olsavszky's research while affiliated with Universität Heidelberg and other places

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Simple Summary Deficiency and targeting of Stabilin-1, which is expressed by liver sinusoidal endothelial cells and subsets of macrophages, has been shown to improve anti-tumor immune responses in preclinical and early clinical studies. This study investigated whether targeting of Stab1 might also influence melanoma liver colonization, as hepatic m...
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Background Cutaneous melanoma exhibits heterogeneous metastatic patterns and prognosis. In this regard, liver metastasis, which is detected in ~ 10–20% of stage 4 patients, came to the fore of melanoma research, as it recently evolved as decisive indicator of treatment resistance to immune checkpoint inhibition. Methods Hepatic metastases were ind...
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The Class H scavenger receptors Stabilin-1 (Stab1) and Stabilin-2 (Stab2) are two of the most highly expressed genes in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs). While Stab1-deficient (Stab1KO) and Stab2-deficient (Stab2KO) mice are phenotypically unremarkable, Stab1/2-double-deficient (StabDKO) mice exhibit perisinusoidal liver fibrosis, glomeru...

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... 4,5 Liver metastases, occurring in 10%−20% of cutaneous melanoma patients, present unique challenges, emphasizing the urgency for innovative treatment strategies. 6,7 Genetic analyses have identified frequent chromosomal loss at 9p13-p22 in melanoma, implicating Interleukin 11 receptor alpha (IL11RA) as a pivotal player encoded in this region. 8,9 IL11RA, situated in the IL-11/IL11RA signaling pathway, governs various biological processes, making it an attractive therapeutic target. ...
... Also found in this series were STAB2, CLEC4G, and LYVE1 genes as midlobular zone 2 markers and confirmed as an expressed healthy human liver [6,7]. STAB2 is primarily expressed in LSECs and is clinically relevant [28,29]. Gene AQP1 (Aquaporin-1) promotes angiogenesis, fibrosis, and portal hypertension and is reported as overexpressed in endothelial cells in advanced fibrotic stages such as cirrhosis [30], which exhibits similar trends of overexpression in our dataset, illustrated in Supplementary Figure S1. ...