Special Issue

Topic: Molecular Pathogenesis and Drivers of Cholangiocarcinoma

A Special Issue of Hepatoma Research

ISSN 2454-2520 (Online) 2394-5079 (Print)

Submission deadline: 30 Dec 2022

Guest Editor(s)

Luca Fabris, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
Diego F. Calvisi, MD
Associate Professor of Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.

Special Issue Introduction

Development and progression of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is sustained by an intricate and heterogeneous process that include the deregulation of signalling pathways, related to development and liver repair, which control cell homeostasis and survival, chronic inflammation, fibrosis, angiogenesis and immune cell response. A complex interplay of extracellular ligands (pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, growth factors, matrix components among others) released by a multitude of cell types which populate a dense tumour microenvironment represents a defining feature of CCA. Moreover, thanks to the advent of integrative genomic studies, it is emerging that distinctive genomic alteration affecting cell cycle regulation, DNA damage and repair, kinase signalling and morphogens can be differently found in the intrahepatic and extrahepatic variants of CCA (iCCA, eCCA). Moreover, epigenetics, including deregulation of methylation, histone modifications, aberrant expression of non-coding RNAs and post-translation modifications of proteins, was shown to play a key role in either the initiation or progression of CCA. Acquisition of a cancer stem cell-like phenotype may also contribute to the wide tumour heterogeneity and resistance to anti-cancer drugs, which typically characterize CCA.

In this Special Issue of Hepatoma Research, major experts in the subject will discuss the intricate landscape of genetic and epigenetic perturbations, multicellular communications within the tumour microenvironment, molecular effectors and related signalling, which incite the malignant transformation and the highly invasive behaviour of this still enigmatic type of cancer.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to the followings:
1. Genomic alterations in iCCA
2. Genomic alterations in eCCA
3. Epigenetic alterations and post-translational modifications in CCAs
4. Signalling and molecular networks related to development and inflammation involved in CCA initiation and progression
5. Stemness and plasticity in CCA development and progression
6. Tumor microenvironment highlighting CAF, including different subpopulations
7. Tumor microenvironment highlighting TAM and immune cells
8. Tumor microenvironment highlighting angiogenesis
9. Tumor microenvironment highlighting fibrosis and ECM proteins
10. Chemoresistance and CCA progression

Submission Deadline

30 Dec 2022

Submission Information

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Submission Deadline: 30 Dec 2022
Contacts: Delphine Wong, Assistant Editor, editor_delphine@hrjournal.net

Published Articles

Crosstalk between cancer cell plasticity and immune microenvironment in cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.69 8 Jan 2024
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Angiogenesis: the Yin and Yang in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.53 22 Aug 2023
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Genomic alterations in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.37 27 Jul 2023
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Tumor microenvironment highlighting tumor-associated macrophages and immune cells

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.32 27 Jul 2023
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Cholangiocarcinoma tumor microenvironment highlighting fibrosis and matrix components

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.23 12 Jul 2023
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Genomic alterations and targeted therapies in extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.04 18 Jun 2023
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Mitochondrial calcium signaling in cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.28 12 Jun 2023
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Expression and function of collagens in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2022.94 18 May 2023
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Signaling and molecular networks related to development and inflammation involved in CCA initiation and progression

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2023.09 23 Apr 2023
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The role of tumor microenvironment in cholangiocarcinoma

Open Access Review DOI: 10.20517/2394-5079.2022.98 23 Mar 2023
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Hepatoma Research
ISSN 2454-2520 (Online) 2394-5079 (Print)

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