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The Impact of Angiogenesis in the Most Common Salivary Gland Malignant Tumors.

ABSTRACT: Salivary gland carcinomas (SGCs) represent a group of rare tumors, with complete surgical resection being the main treatment option. Therapeutic armory for cases of locally aggressive, recurrent, and/or metastatic SGCs, though, remains poor since they exhibit high rates of resistance to systematic therapy. Angiogenesis is considered one of the contemporary hallmarks of cancer and anti-angiogenic factors have already been approved for the treatment of several cancer types. This review aims to summarize, in a histotype-specific manner, the most current available data on the angiogenic factors implicated in SGC angiogenesis, in order to highlight the differences between the most common SGC histotypes and the factors that may have a potential role as therapeutic targets.

SUBMITTER: Pouloudi D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7762607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Impact of Angiogenesis in the Most Common Salivary Gland Malignant Tumors.

Pouloudi Despoina D Sotiriadis Aristoteles A Theodorakidou Margarita M Sarantis Panagiotis P Pergaris Alexandros A Karamouzis Michalis V MV Theocharis Stamatios S

International journal of molecular sciences 20201208 24

Salivary gland carcinomas (SGCs) represent a group of rare tumors, with complete surgical resection being the main treatment option. Therapeutic armory for cases of locally aggressive, recurrent, and/or metastatic SGCs, though, remains poor since they exhibit high rates of resistance to systematic therapy. Angiogenesis is considered one of the contemporary hallmarks of cancer and anti-angiogenic factors have already been approved for the treatment of several cancer types. This review aims to sum ...[more]

PMID: 33302367

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Project description:Rationale: Immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is key to the pathogenesis of solid tumors. Tumor cell-intrinsic autophagy is critical for sustaining both tumor cell metabolism and survival. However, the role of autophagy in the host immune system that allows cancer cells to escape immune destruction remains poorly understood. Here, we determined if attenuated host autophagy is sufficient to induce tumor rejection through reinforced adaptive immunity. Furthermore, we determined whether dietary glutamine supplementation, mimicking attenuated host autophagy, is capable of promoting antitumor immunity. Methods: A syngeneic orthotopic tumor model in Atg5+/+ and Atg5flox/flox mice was established to determine the impact of host autophagy on the antitumor effects against mouse malignant salivary gland tumors (MSTs). Multiple cohorts of immunocompetent mice were used for oncoimmunology studies, including inflammatory cytokine levels, macrophage, CD4+, and CD8+ cells tumor infiltration at 14 days and 28 days after MST inoculation. In vitro differentiation and in vivo dietary glutamine supplementation were used to assess the effects of glutamine on Treg differentiation and tumor expansion. Results: We showed that mice deficient in the essential autophagy gene, Atg5, rejected orthotopic allografts of isogenic MST cells. An enhanced antitumor immune response evidenced by reduction of both M1 and M2 macrophages, increased infiltration of CD8+ T cells, elevated IFN-γ production, as well as decreased inhibitory Tregs within TME and spleens of tumor-bearing Atg5flox/flox mice. Mechanistically, ATG5 deficiency increased glutamine level in tumors. We further demonstrated that dietary glutamine supplementation partially increased glutamine levels and restored potent antitumor responses in Atg5+/+ mice. Conclusions: Dietary glutamine supplementation exposes a previously undefined difference in plasticity between cancer cells, cytotoxic CD8+ T cells and Tregs.

Project description:PurposeThe clinical practice of elastosonography for the detection of salivary gland tumors is still a controversial issue. The objective of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effect of elastosonography for the diagnosis of salivary gland tumors and to compare the diagnostic value of elastosonography and conventional ultrasound in the diagnosis of salivary gland tumors.MethodsA comprehensive literature search through PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library was carried out from inception to November 2021. Two researchers independently extracted the data from the enrolled papers using a standard data extraction form. The pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated to evaluate the diagnostic performance of elastosonography. The Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 (QUADAS-2) tool was utilized to evaluate the quality of each included study. Meta-DiSc version 1.4, Review Manager 5.3, and StataSE 15 were used.ResultsSixteen studies with a total of 1105 patients with 1146 lesions were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled sensitivity, specificity, PLR, NLR, and DOR of elastosonography for the differentiation between benign and malignant salivary gland tumors were 0.73 (95%CI, 0.66-0.78), 0.64 (95%CI, 0.61-0.67), 2.83 (95%CI, 1.97-4.07), 0.45 (95%CI, 0.32-0.62), and 9.86 (95%CI, 4.49-21.62), respectively, with an AUC of 0.82. Four studies provided data regarding the conventional ultrasound for the differentiation between benign and malignant salivary gland tumors. The pooled sensitivity, specificity, and DOR were 0.62 (95%CI, 0.50-0.73), 0.93 (95%CI, 0.90-0.96), and 25.07 (95%CI, 4.28-146.65), respectively. The meta-regression and subgroup analyses found that assessment methods were associated with significant heterogeneity, and quantitative or semiquantitative elastosonography performed better than the qualitative one.ConclusionsElastosonography showed a limited value for diagnosing malignant salivary gland tumors; it could be considered as a supplementary diagnostic technology to conventional ultrasound, and quantitative or semiquantitative elastosonography was superior to the qualitative one.

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The Impact of Angiogenesis in the Most Common Salivary Gland Malignant Tumors.

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The Impact of Angiogenesis in the Most Common Salivary Gland Malignant Tumors.

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