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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 198, Issue 5, Pages 747-755Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021282
Keywords
carcinogenesis; squamous cell carcinoma; TCR gamma delta; TCR alpha beta; immunogenetics
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- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
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Epithelial tissues in which carcinomas develop often contain systemically derived T cell receptor (TCR)alphabeta(+) cells and resident intraepithelial lymphocytes that are commonly enriched in TCRgammadelta(+) cells. Recent studies have demonstrated that gammadelta cells protect the host against chemically induced cutaneous malignancy, but the role of up T cells has been enigmatic, with both projective and tumor-enhancing contributions being reported in different systems. This study aims to clarify the contributions of each T cell type to the regulation of squamous cell carcinoma induced in FVB mice by a two-stage regimen. of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene initiation followed by repetitive application of the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecauoylphorbol 13-acetate. This protocol permits one to monitor the induction of papillomas and the progression of those papillomas to carcinomas. The results show that whereas gammadelta cells are strongly protective, the nonredundant contributions of alphabeta T cells to the host's protection against papillomas are more modest. Furthermore, at both high and low doses of carcinogens, up T cells can contribute to rather than inhibit the progression of papillomas to carcinomas. As is likely to be the case in humans, this study also shows that the contribution of T cells to tumor immunosurveillance is regulated by modifier genes.
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