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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-19
pubmed:abstractText
Tumors escape immune-mediated rejection by a variety of mechanisms during tumor progression. The elucidation of these mechanisms in vivo suffers from a lack of suitable models of spontaneous tumor formation escaping active specific immunotherapy (ASI). In a rat neu transgenic (rNeu-TG) mouse model of spontaneous breast tumor formation, we showed that rNeu-TG mice developed late escape tumors despite the presence of a persistent rNeu-specific immune response after ASI. Cell suspensions derived from these escape tumors grew in vaccinated tumor-free mice, whereas injected spontaneous tumor cells were rejected. Escape tumors retained rNeu or MHC class I expression but significantly upregulated Fas (CD95, Apo-1) ligand. We further demonstrated that Fas-L on escape tumor cells correlated with apoptosis of infiltrating T lymphocytes. Thus, our results provide evidence that spontaneous breast tumors upregulate Fas-L expression after vaccination that may promote tumor escape in vivo after ASI.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
529-37
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11251977-3T3 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Cancer Vaccines, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Cell Separation, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Fas Ligand Protein, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Genes, MHC Class I, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Mammary Neoplasms, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Receptor, erbB-2, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11251977-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Role of Fas ligand expression in promoting escape from immune rejection in a spontaneous tumor model.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, 35 Murtenstrasse, 3010 Bern, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't