Dendritic Cell Plasticity, Radiation, and Newton's Third Law.

Kalinski, Pawel; Gandhi, Shipra; Kokolus, Kathleen M · Clin Cancer Res · 2024

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Regulatory T cells protect damaged tissues but can undermine the effects of cancer treatments, including radiotherapy (RTx). Intratumoral immunostimulatory dendritic cells (type 1 conventional dendritic cells) respond to RTx with the production of regulatory T cell-attracting MDC/CCL22, undermining RTx effects. That effect can be reversed by EGFR-targeted IFNα, highlighting cDC1 plasticity and relevance as therapeutic targets. See related article by Bugno et al., p. 4450.

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