Abstract:e15548 Background: Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) play prominent and diverse tumor-promoting function roles in tumor microenvironment (TME) and influence cancer hallmarks, but without systematic investigation between left-sided and right-sided CRC (colorectal cancer). Methods: We collected a public scRNA-seq dataset (Pelka et al., 2021) with 21 samples from left-sided CRC and 79 from right-sided CRC. Only CAFs were extracted for downstream analysis. Seurat (Stuart et al., 2019), Monocle2 (den Berge et a… Show more
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