Article ; Online: Low microchimeric cell density in tumors suggests alternative antineoplastic mechanism.
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England)
2017 Volume 34, Issue 4, Page(s) 65
Abstract: Microchimerism has generally been shown to protect against cancer (Gilmore et al. in Exp Hematol 36(9):1073-1077, 2008). The mechanism of how this occurs is an area of intense study, as it may lead to new cancer treatments. The leading theory is that ... ...
| Abstract | Microchimerism has generally been shown to protect against cancer (Gilmore et al. in Exp Hematol 36(9):1073-1077, 2008). The mechanism of how this occurs is an area of intense study, as it may lead to new cancer treatments. The leading theory is that microchimeric cells perform immune surveillance by directly fighting cancerous cells and that they also act as stem cells, repairing damaged tissue (Khosrotehrani et al. in JAMA 292:75-80, 2004). However, there is conflicting evidence to support this theory. Several small studies have found few microchimeric cells in tumor tissue (Gadi in Breast Cancer Res Treat 121(1):241-244, 2010; Cirello et al. in Int J Cancer 126:2874-2878, 2010), while another study contradicted these findings by showing microchimeric cells clustered around tumor tissue (O'Donoghue et al. in Reprod Biomed Online 16:382-390, 2008). To date, we have designed the largest and broadest study to investigate this question of whether microchimeric cells really do cluster at tumor tissue. We analyzed 245 samples from a broad range of cancer types. Using PCR for the male chromosome marker TSPY1, we identified only 12 out of 245 samples with microchimerism for a rate of 4.9% (95% confidence interval 2.2-7.6%). Five of these samples were confirmed using Y fluorescence in situ hybridization. This rate of 4.9% microchimerism is the lowest reported in any study. The low percentage of microchimerism observed in our broad study suggests that microchimeric cells do not invade tumors to fight off neoplasm. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Cell Count ; Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics ; Chimerism ; Female ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Neoplasms/genetics ; Neoplasms/immunology ; Neoplasms/pathology | |||||
| Chemical Substances | Cell Cycle Proteins ; TSPY1 protein, human | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2017-04 | |||||
| Publishing country | United States | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 1201189-7 | |||||
| ISSN | 1559-131X ; 0736-0118 ; 1357-0560 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1559-131X | |||||
| ISSN | 0736-0118 ; 1357-0560 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1007/s12032-017-0921-6 | |||||
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