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BIOLOGY OF BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 16, Issue 12, Pages 1665-1673Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.07.014
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Squamous cell carcinoma; Inflammation; Keratinocytes; Genomic instability; Aneuploidy; Tetraploidy
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a major risk factor for secondary malignancy after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin and mucous membranes are especially frequent in this setting where aneuploidy and tetraploidy are associated with aggressive disease The current study is directed at the mechanism of neoplasia in this setting Unmanipulated keratinocytes from areas of oral GVHD in 9 patients showed tetraploidy in 10% to 46% of cells when examined by florescein in situ hybridization (FISH) Keratinocytes isolated from biopsy sites of GVHD but not from normal tissue showed even greater numbers of tetraploid cells (mean = 78% range 15% 85% N = 9) after culture To mimic the inflammatory process in GVHD allogeneic HLA mismatched lymphocytes were mixed with normal keratinocytes After 2 weeks substantial numbers of aneuploid and tetraploid cells were evident in cultures with lymphocytes and with purified CD8 but not CD4 cells Telomere length was substantially decreased in the lymphocyte treated sample No mutations were present in the p53 gene although haploinsufficiency for p53 due to the loss of chromosome 17 was common in cells exposed to lymphocytes These findings suggest that in GVHD inflammation and repeated cell division correlate with the development of karyotypic abnormalities Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 16 1665-1673 (2010) (C) 2010 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
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