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| Author(s): |
Renato Brito Baleeiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB/SDI) |
| Defense date: | 2007-12-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Alexandre Marzagao Barbuto;
Vera Luiza Capelozzi;
Jose Maria Alvarez Mosig
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| Advisor: | Jose Alexandre Marzagao Barbuto |
| Abstract | |
Dendritic cells (DCs) play a crucial role in the immune response and the deviation of its differentiation to macrophages in the tumor microenvironment may be a mechanism of escape of tumor from immune response. Thus, the aim of this project was to compare between affected and non-affected lung, the frequency of DCs, macrophages and mast cells and production in situ of IL-4 and TNF-<font face=\"symbol\">a. In this analysis, we observe higher amount of DCs (CD1a+ and S-100+), macrophages (CD68+), mast cells (toluidine blue+) and cells producing TNF-<font face=\"symbol\">a in the tumor than non-affected lung. In lung, we found higher frequency of cells IL-4+ and in lung digests we observed higher amount of mature DCs. We also identified the expression by tumor or stroma cells the CD83, present in activated DCs, in 10 of 11 patients. The supernatant of such cells CD83+ inhibited the activation of lymphocyte by alogeneic DCs, but this effect was decreased by anti-CD83. (AU) | |