2012年8月31日 訊 /生物谷BIOON/ --發(fā)表在Journal of Leukocyte Biology雜志上的一項最新研究表明單核細胞來源的樹突狀細胞誘導免疫反應來抗擊腫瘤并非如預期的那樣有效,。
刊登在2012年9月Journal of Leukocyte Biology雜志上的一則研究報告解釋了為什么有些癌癥疫苗沒有達到預期的效果,,同時發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種治療自身免疫問題的新策略,。在該報告中,,科學家證實即使癌癥在早期階段,,樹突狀細胞會產(chǎn)生一種負向免疫應答,,以防止淋巴細胞抵抗腫瘤,。雖然用于癌癥治療,,這些有缺陷的樹突狀細胞用于防止免疫系統(tǒng)受到下列情況的攻擊如自身免疫性疾病,、器官移植等可能是有價值的治療工具,。
巴西圣保羅大學腫瘤免疫學實驗室José Alexandre M. Barbuto博士表示:癌癥免疫治療一直是一個難以實現(xiàn)的目標,雖然非常具有有前途,,但似乎從來沒有實現(xiàn)過,。這項研究有助于我們更好地了解腫瘤逃避免疫識別的機制,便于我們?nèi)绾握嬲行У乩妹庖呦到y(tǒng)對抗腫瘤,。
在這項研究中,,研究人員獲得了一個小部分乳腺癌患者和健康志愿者的血液樣本。然后分離出血細胞并誘導成為樹突狀細胞,。研究人員使用這些實驗室產(chǎn)生的樹突狀細胞誘導其他免疫系統(tǒng)細胞即淋巴細胞的免疫響應,。盡管從健康供體中誘導的樹突狀細胞能產(chǎn)生劇烈的淋巴細胞反應,但從癌癥患者中得到的樹突狀細胞主要誘導一種特定類型淋巴細胞的激活,,該類型淋巴細胞充當“剎車”監(jiān)管其他類型淋巴細胞阻斷其活化,。本研究為研究調(diào)節(jié)啟動抗腫瘤反應所涉的一個關(guān)鍵免疫細胞類型即樹突狀細胞的基本機制提供了新的見解。(生物谷:Bioon.com)
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Monocyte-derived dendritic cells from breast cancer patients are biased to induce CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells
Rodrigo Nalio Ramos, Lilian Sally Chin, Ana Paula S. A. dos Santos, Patrícia Cruz Bergami-Santos, Fábio Laginha, and José Alexandre M. Barbuto.
DCs orchestrate immune responses contributing to the pattern of response developed. In cancer, DCs may play a dysfunctional role in the induction of CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) Tregs, contributing to immune evasion. We show here that Mo-DCs from breast cancer patients show an altered phenotype and induce preferentially Tregs, a phenomenon that occurred regardless of DC maturation stimulus (sCD40L, cytokine cocktail, TNF-α, and LPS). The Mo-DCs of patients induced low proliferation of allogeneic CD3(+)CD25(neg)Foxp3(neg) cells, which after becoming CD25(+), suppressed mitogen-stimulated T cells. Contrastingly, Mo-DCs from healthy donors induced a stronger proliferative response, a low frequency of CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) with no suppressive activity. Furthermore, healthy Mo-DCs induced higher levels of IFN-γ, whereas the Mo-DCs of patients induced higher levels of bioactive TGF-β1 and IL-10 in cocultures with allogeneic T cells. Interestingly, TGF-β1 blocking with mAb in cocultures was not enough to completely revert the Mo-DCs of patients' bias toward Treg induction. Altogether, these findings should be considered in immunotherapeutic approaches for cancer based on Mo-DCs.