TY - JOUR
T1 - Microenvironmental interactions in classical Hodgkin lymphoma and their role in promoting tumor growth, immune escape and drug resistance
AU - Aldinucci, Donatella
AU - Celegato, Marta
AU - Casagrande, Naike
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is characterized by few tumor cells surrounded by immune cells, fibroblasts, specialized mesenchymal stromal cells and endothelial cells, representing together with their products an active part of the disease.Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells can secrete cytokines/chemokines and angiogenic factors capable of recruiting and/or inducing the proliferation of the surrounding cells and can also interact with distant sites of the microenvironment by secreting exosomes. To escape from a useful anti-tumor response due to the recognition by T and NK cells, HRS cells down-regulate HLA molecules, produce immune suppressive cytokines that inhibit cytotoxic responses, and induce an immunosuppressive phenotype on T lymphocytes and Monocytes. HRS cells survive, proliferate and are protected from the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy agents by soluble factors or by the direct contact with inflammatory and stromal cells of the tumor microenvironment (TME).A summary of the current knowledge about classical Hodgkin Lymphoma focusing on the cross-talk between tumor cells and the microenvironment leading to immune-escape, angiogenesis tumor growth/survival and drug resistance will be reviewed here.
AB - Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is characterized by few tumor cells surrounded by immune cells, fibroblasts, specialized mesenchymal stromal cells and endothelial cells, representing together with their products an active part of the disease.Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells can secrete cytokines/chemokines and angiogenic factors capable of recruiting and/or inducing the proliferation of the surrounding cells and can also interact with distant sites of the microenvironment by secreting exosomes. To escape from a useful anti-tumor response due to the recognition by T and NK cells, HRS cells down-regulate HLA molecules, produce immune suppressive cytokines that inhibit cytotoxic responses, and induce an immunosuppressive phenotype on T lymphocytes and Monocytes. HRS cells survive, proliferate and are protected from the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy agents by soluble factors or by the direct contact with inflammatory and stromal cells of the tumor microenvironment (TME).A summary of the current knowledge about classical Hodgkin Lymphoma focusing on the cross-talk between tumor cells and the microenvironment leading to immune-escape, angiogenesis tumor growth/survival and drug resistance will be reviewed here.
KW - Angiogenesis
KW - Drug-resistance
KW - Hodgkin lymphoma
KW - Immune-escape
KW - Tumor microenvironment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.canlet.2015.10.007
DO - 10.1016/j.canlet.2015.10.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84950976783
SP - 243
EP - 252
JO - Cancer Letters
JF - Cancer Letters
SN - 0304-3835
ER -