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- Title
Effect of the Premalignant and Tumor Microenvironment on Immune Cell Cytokine Production in Head and Neck Cancer.
- Authors
Johnson, Sara D.; De Costa, Anna-Maria A.; Young, M. Rita I.
- Abstract
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is marked by immunosuppression, a state in which the established tumor escapes immune attack. However, the impact of the premalignant and tumor microenvironments on immune reactivity has yet to be elucidated. The purpose of this study was to determine how soluble mediators from cells established from carcinogen-induced oral premalignant lesions and HNSCC modulate immune cell cytokine production. It was found that premalignant cells secrete significantly increased levels of G-CSF, RANTES, MCP-1, and PGE2 compared to HNSCC cells. Splenocytes incubated with premalignant supernatant secreted significantly increased levels of Th1-, Th2-, and Th17-associated cytokines compared to splenocytes incubated with HNSCC supernatant. These studies demonstrate that whereas the premalignant microenvironment elicits proinflammatory cytokine production, the tumor microenvironment is significantly less immune stimulatory and may contribute to immunosuppression in established HNSCC.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; ANIMAL experimentation; CELL culture; CONFIDENCE intervals; CYTOKINES; EXPERIMENTAL design; HEAD tumors; IMMUNE system; IMMUNOLOGICAL tolerance; MICE; NECK tumors; RESEARCH funding; SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma; T-test (Statistics); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; IN vitro studies
- Publication
Cancers, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 2, p756
- ISSN
2072-6694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cancers6020756