ALTERATIONS IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION MOLECULES IN LYMPHOCYTES-T FROM TUMOR-BEARING MICE
ALTERATIONS IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION MOLECULES IN LYMPHOCYTES-T FROM TUMOR-BEARING MICE
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DOI:
10.1126/science.1465616
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发表时间:
1992-12-11
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
OCHOA, AC
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MIZOGUCHI, H;O'SHEA, JJ;OCHOA, AC
Impaired immune responses occur frequently in cancer patients or in tumor-bearing mice, but the mechanisms of the tumor-induced immune defects remain poorly understood. In an in vivo murine colon carcinoma model (MCA-38), animals bearing a tumor longer than 26 days develop CD8+ T cells with impaired cytotoxic function, decreased expression of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha and granzyme B genes, and decreased ability to mediate an antitumor response in vivo. T lymphocytes from tumor-bearing mice expressed T cell antigen receptors that contained low amounts of CD3gamma and completely lacked CD3zeta, which was replaced by the Fc(epsilon) gamma-chain. Expression of the tyrosine kinases p56lck and p59fyn was also reduced. These changes could be the basis of immune defects in tumor-bearing hosts.