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CELLS
卷 10, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells10061436
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hyperthermia; radiofrequency; heat source; immune modulatory effects; multimodal tumor treatment; immune checkpoint inhibitors
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- Bavarian Research Foundation (Microthermia, Bayerische Forschungsstiftung) [AZ-1261-17]
The immune phenotype of tumor cells plays a crucial role in the anti-tumor immune response, and the combination of hyperthermia with radiotherapy can enhance this response. The frequency of hyperthermia systems may impact the immune phenotype of treated tumor cells, affecting the immunogenicity of tumors.
Multimodal tumor treatment settings consisting of radiotherapy and immunomodulating agents such as immune checkpoint inhibitors are more and more commonly applied in clinics. In this context, the immune phenotype of tumor cells has a major influence on the anti-tumor immune response as well as the composition of the tumor microenvironment. A promising approach to further boost anti-tumor immune responses is to add hyperthermia (HT), i.e., heating the tumor tissue between 39 degrees C to 45 degrees C for 60 min. One key technique is the use of radiative hyperthermia systems. However, knowledge is limited as to how the frequency of the used radiative systems affects the immune phenotype of the treated tumor cells. By using our self-designed in vitro hyperthermia system, we compared cell death induction and expression of immune checkpoint molecules (ICM) on the tumor cell surface of murine B16 melanoma and human MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cells following HT treatment with clinically relevant microwaves at 915 MHz or 2.45 GHz alone, radiotherapy (RT; 2 x 5 Gy or 5 x 2 Gy) alone or in combination (RHT). At 44 degrees C, HT alone was the dominant cell death inductor with inactivation rates of around 70% for B16, 45% for MDA-MB-231 and 35% for MCF-7 at 915 MHz and 80%, 60% and 50% at 2.45 GHz, respectively. Additional RT resulted in 5-15% higher levels of dead cells. The expression of ICM on tumor cells showed time-, treatment-, cell line- and frequency-dependent effects and was highest for RHT. Computer simulations of an exemplary spherical cell revealed frequency-dependent local energy absorption. The frequency of hyperthermia systems is a newly identified parameter that could also affect the immune phenotype of tumor cells and consequently the immunogenicity of tumors.
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