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. 2018 Feb 19;17:62. doi: 10.1186/s12943-018-0815-z

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Immunosuppressive modulator role of PSCs. PSCs induce TME remodeling, dense matrix caused hypoxia and hypo-vascularity impair T cells infiltration and their nutrition obtaining; multifactorial T cell exhaustion attenuates Teff functions; PSCs-derived suppressive factors (such as IL-6, CXCL12), suppressive signaling and recruitment of suppressive cells (such as MDSCs, Treg cells, TAMs) create an immunosuppressive TME in PDAC