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CANCER BIOTHERAPY AND RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
Volume 29, Issue 10, Pages 428-434Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2014.1702
Keywords
adoptive cellular immunotherapy; P38; natural killer cells; low-dose ionizing radiation
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- Ministry of Education Key Project of Science and Technology [311015]
- Bethune Foundation of Jilin University [201202, 2013023]
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Recent evidence indicates that limited availability and cytotoxicity have restricted the development of natural killer (NK) cells in adoptive cellular immunotherapy (ACI). While it has been reported that low-dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) could enhance the immune response in animal studies, the influence of LDIR at the cellular level has been less well defined. In this study, the authors aim to investigate the direct effects of LDIR on NK cells and the potential mechanism, and explore the application of activation and expansion of NK cells by LDIR in ACI. The authors found that expansion and cytotoxicity of NK cells were markedly augmented by LDIR. The levels of IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha in the supernatants of cultured NK cells were significantly increased after LDIR. Additionally, the effect of the P38 inhibitor (SB203580) significantly decreased the expanded NK cell cytotoxicity, cytokine levels, and expression levels of FasL and perforin. These findings indicate that LDIR induces a direct expansion and activation of NK cells through possibly the P38-MAPK pathway, which provides a potential mechanism for stimulation of NK cells by LDIR and a novel but simplified approach for ACI.
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