| Literature DB >> 24684178 |
Tvsvgk Tilak1, Surender Sherawat, Sandeep Agarwala, Ritu Gupta, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Sameer Bakhshi.
Abstract
The objective of our study was to determine baseline Tregs in neuroblastoma patients and correlate with patient characteristics, their change with therapy and at relapse/progression. Flow-cytometric analysis for Treg cells [CD4+CD25+FoxP3+] was done in 14 de novo neuroblastoma patients at diagnosis, post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy and at relapse/progression, along with six healthy controls. Patients had significantly higher baseline Treg frequency than controls [Mean 9.84 ± 3.84 vs 3.16 ± 1.49, P < .001]; higher mean Treg frequency in patients with tumors >10 cm (P = .004) and there was significant reduction in Treg frequency with neoadjuvant chemotherapy when compared with the baseline value [Mean 3.07 ± 1.24 vs 9.72 ± 3.84, P = .007].Entities:
Keywords: T-regulatory; chemotherapy; neuroblastoma
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24684178 DOI: 10.3109/08880018.2014.886002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pediatr Hematol Oncol ISSN: 0888-0018 Impact factor: 1.969