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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-12-4
pubmed:abstractText
Cervical carcinomas are closely associated with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types and are preceded by cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Most CIN lesions regress spontaneously and will not evolve to invasive carcinoma. The cellular immune system mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and natural killer (NK) cells are thought to play an important role in the ultimate decline of CIN lesions. Although TIA-1 is constitutively expressed in the majority of circulating T cells and defines a subpopulation of CD8+ T cells with cytotoxic potential, granzyme B is only expressed in CTLs upon activation. In the present study we have evaluated the expression of these proteins by lymphocytes present in 24 randomly chosen CIN lesions with increasing degree of atypia and in 14 cervical squamous cell carcinomas. As major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I expression is frequently down-regulated in HPV-induced lesions, thus possibly frustrating tumour cell recognition by infiltrating CTLs, these lesions were also analysed for MHC class I expression. The results indicated that in most CIN lesions only a minority of CTLs are activated, whereas in some carcinomas a massive infiltration of activated, i.e. granzyme B-positive, CTLs were observed. The percentage of activated CTLs was not related to expression of MHC class I on neoplastic cells. These results suggest that in some carcinomas proper activation of CTLs occurs but that most likely local factors or immunoselection of resistant neoplastic cells inhibit a proper response of CTLs to these neoplastic cells.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0007-0920
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
76
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1353-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-DNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Granzymes, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Histocompatibility Antigens Class I, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Immunophenotyping, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Papillomaviridae, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Poly(A)-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-RNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic, pubmed-meshheading:9374383-Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Assessment of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte phenotype using the specific markers granzyme B and TIA-1 in cervical neoplastic lesions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article