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Oncol Lett. 2019 Aug;18(2):1497-1502. doi: 10.3892/ol.2019.10428. Epub 2019 May 31.

Expression of the immune checkpoint receptor TIGIT in seminoma.

Oncology letters

Andrea Hinsch, Niclas C Blessin, Ronald Simon, Martina Kluth, Kristine Fischer, Claudia Hube-Magg, Wenchao Li, Georgia Makrypidi-Fraune, Björn Wellge, Tim Mandelkow, Nicolaus F Debatin, Doris Höflmayer, Maximilian Lennartz, Guido Sauter, Jakob R Izbicki, Sarah Minner, Franziska Büscheck, Ria Uhlig, David Dum, Till Krech, Andreas M Luebke, Corinna Wittmer, Frank Jacobsen, Eike Burandt, Stefan Steurer, Waldemar Wilczak

Affiliations

  1. Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany.
  2. ONCOdianova GmbH, D-20354 Hamburg, Germany.
  3. Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany.

PMID: 31423216 PMCID: PMC6607271 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2019.10428

Abstract

A characteristic feature of testicular seminoma is the abundance of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, raising the possibility that immune checkpoint inhibitors may serve as a therapeutic option in these types of tumors. T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT) is an inhibitory immune checkpoint receptor in analogy to PD-1, and drugs targeting TIGIT are currently being investigated in clinical trials. Little is known about the expression of these proteins in testicular seminomas. Therefore the present study performed immunohistochemical analysis to determine the relative abundance of TIGIT and PD-1 in relation to the total CD3

Keywords: Programmed Cell Death 1; T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains; immune checkpoint; immunotherapy; infiltrating lymphocytes; seminoma; tissue microarray

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