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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The infiltration of immune cells and their roles of the infiltrating-immune cells in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is still unclear.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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We aimed to discover the infiltration cell types and the relationship between the infiltrating-immune cells and the progression of GIST.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Single-cell RNA sequencing were performed to discover types of the infiltrating-immune cells and to analyze CellChat between cells.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Immunohistochemistry of 80 GIST samples were used to clarify the relation between macrophages and recurrence risk.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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In vitro, flow cytometry and Real-time PCR were performed to uncover a potential mechanism of tumor cell regulation of macrophages.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Tumor cells, macrophages, and T-cells were the predominant cell types.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The MIF/CXCR4 axis was the most common ligand–receptor interaction between macrophages and tumor cells.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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As the risk increased, expression levels of CD68, CD206, MIF, and CXCR4 gradually increased.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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In vitro, we found that GIST882 was able to secrete MIF and GIST882 cell supernatant upregulated M2 polarization.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Real-time PCR showed that expression levels of IL-10 mRNA and Arginase-1 mRNA were also the highest in the GIST882 cell supernatant group.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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These findings identify that macrophages are the most abundant infiltrating cells in GIST.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The MIF/CXCR4 axis is the most common ligand–receptor interaction between macrophages and tumor cells.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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GIST cells can regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is the most common mesenchymal tumors in the gastrointestinal tract (1).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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It is well-known that GISTs originate from the interstitial cells of Cajal and that GISTs are characterized by acquired gene mutations.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Specifically, KIT (75–80%) and PDGFRA (5–10%) are the most common gain-of-function mutations (2, 3).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The risk stratification based on tumor size, tumor site, and mitotic count is often used to predict the recurrence risk.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Targeted therapy is the first choice for the patients with metastatic disease and those with intermediate or high recurrence risk (4).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Imatinib, from the first generation of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), is the most effective drug.
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However, patients invariably develop drug resistance.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The second generation and the third generation of TKIs have limited benefit and more drug side effects (5).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Thus, it is important to develop new treatment strategies.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Recently, the monoclonal antibodies against immunological checkpoints PD-1 and CTLA-4 have been used in most tumors to improve overall survival (6–8).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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However, not all the patients can benefit from the immune therapy.
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Factors such as PD-1/PD-L1, tumor mutational burden, and microsatellite instability have been suggested to predict treatment response.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Tumor-infiltrating immune cells seem to play an important role in treatment responses and tumor progression (9–11).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Available studies have shown abundant immune cell infiltration in GIST (5, 12–14).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Moreover, it has been demonstrated that imatinib could lead to the activation of CD8 T cells and that CD8 T cells also promote imatinib’s antitumor effects (5, 15).
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However, CD8 T cells become exhausted and macrophage count increases with tumor progression (12, 16).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Although abundant immune cell infiltration has been found in GIST microenvironment, clinical studies have shown that immunotherapy is not ideal (17, 18).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Thus, it is important to clarify the roles of infiltrated immune cells in the progression of GIST.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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In this study, we aimed to determine the role of macrophages during tumor progression and cell-chat types between macrophages and tumor cells.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Two patients (G01 and G02) were recruited for single-cell transcriptome analysis.
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The two tumors were both located on the greater curvature of the gastric body.
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The patient G01 underwent surgical resection, and the patient G02 underwent endoscopic resection.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Immunohistochemical results showed that CD117, DOG-1, and CD34 were positive.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The maximum tumor diameter in the patient G01 was 10 cm, and the mitotic index was 12/50 high-power fields (HPF).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Thus, the risk in G01 was considered high.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The maximum diameter of the tumor in the patient G02 was 2 cm, and the mitotic index was 1/50 HPF.
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Hence, the risk in G02 was defined as very low.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Tumor tissues were obtained from the resection specimens and were cut into small pieces.
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These pieces were digested with collagenase IV for 15 min at 37°C.
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Next, 70-µm cell strainer was used for filtration.
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Countess II Automated Cell Counter was used to determine the cell viability.
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Cells were loaded onto the 10X Chromium Single Cell Platform (10X Genomics) at a concentration of 1,000 cells/µL (Single Cell 3′ library and Gel Bead Kit v.3) as described in the manufacturer’s protocol.
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Generation of gel beads in emulsion (GEMs), barcoding, GEM-RT clean-up, complementary DNA amplification, and library construction were all performed as per the manufacturer’s protocol.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Qubit was used for library quantification before pooling.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The final library pool was sequenced on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 instrument using 150-base-pair paired-end reads.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Cell ranger 3.0 software was used to generate cells × genes matrixes, and all parameters were set to default.
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Criteria of quality control were as follows: (a) RNA counts less than 500; (b) RNA counts larger than 98% of cells; (c) mitochondrial gene expression percentage higher than 15%.
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A tool named CellChat was used to analyze and infer intercellular communication networks from these single-cell transcriptome data.
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Tissue microarray with 5-micron was created from paraffin-embedded tumor tissues, which were collected from January 2011 to September 2020.
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The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) all patients were diagnosed with GIST; (2) Clinicopathological information were complete.
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The exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) patients were treated with targeted drugs; (2) tumors were not located in stomach or intestine; (3) tissue was not used for immunohistochemistry.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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According to these inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria, 80 patients were included for this study.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence were performed on the tissue microarray with the following antibodies: rabbit polyclonal antibodies against human CD8 (ZEN Bio, Lot No:10011860), CD206 (Protein tech, Lot No:00080496), MIF (ZEN Bio, Lot No:20200101), and CXCR4 (ZEN Bio, Lot No: BJ10221968), and monoclonal mouse antibody against human CD68 (Abcam, Lot No:00098190).
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ImageJ software was used to scan the stained tissue chip and count the stained cells.
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Human GIST cells GIST882 with a mutation in KIT exon 13 were provided by Jonathan Fletcher (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA) (19, 20).
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GIST882 cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM, HyClone, Logan, UT) with high glucose supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, HyClone) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin (HyClone).
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GIST882 cells were identified as CD117-positive by flow cytometry.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Human THP-1 monocytes were kindly provided by Stem Cell Bank, Chinese Academy of Science.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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THP-1 monocytes were grown in RPMI 1640 (HyClone) supplemented with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin/streptomycin.
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THP-1 monocytes were treated with PMA (100 ng/mL, Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) to induce them to differentiate into macrophage-like cells (21).
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GIST882 cells were cultured to 60% confluence and replaced with FBS-free medium.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The supernatants were collected at 24 and 48 h and stored at −80°C.
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The secreted MIF in GIST882 supernatants was quantified by ELISA (Beyotime Biotechnology, China) following standard protocols.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Human-specific antibodies (CD206, Lot No: B318421 and CD86, Lot No: 0209406) were purchased from BD Biosciences.
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All samples of these groups were measured by BD flow cytometry.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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FlowJo software (version 7.6) (Ashland, OR, USA) was used to analyze these data.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Total RNA was extracted from GIST882 cells by using TRIzol reagent (Takara Bio Inc., Japan) in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.
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Total RNA (1 μg) was reversely transcribed to form cDNA using cDNA synthesis kit (Yeasen, China).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Real-time PCR was quantified using Hieff qPCR SYBR Green Master Mix Kit (Yeasen) and performed on iQ5 Opticon System (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA).
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The expression of mRNA was normalized to that of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and calculated by using the 2 method.
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The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Sichuan Cancer Hospital (SCCHEC-02-2021-013).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Written informed consent was obtained from the patients.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Patient records/information were anonymized, and the methods were adopted in accordance with the approved guidelines.
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The Fisher exact test and the t test were used for comparison of different groups.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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These statistical analyses were conducted with the GraphPad Prism software version 9 and SPSS 26.0 (IBM SPSS).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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In the single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, we included one patient with very-low-risk GIST and one patient with high-risk GIST.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The clinicopathological characteristics are shown in Table 1 .
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After quality control, 11 208 effective cells were obtained in the G01 sample (high risk), whereas 9 996 effective cells were obtained in the G02 sample (very low risk).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Clusters were detected and visualized by uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) ( Figure 1 ).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The following cell clusters were identified in the samples: tumor cells, macrophages/monocytes, CD8 T cells, dendritic cells, endothelial cells, and NK cells.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Immune cells were the majority of the infiltrating cells in the two tumor samples ( Figure 2 ).
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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The major cell types were the same in the two tumor samples, namely tumor cells, macrophages/monocytes, and CD8 T cells.
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However, the counts of infiltrating cells differed between the two tumor samples ( Table 2 ).
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In G01, the count of tumor cells was 6176, accounting for 55.1% of the total cell number; the count of macrophages was 3850, accounting for 34.3% of the total cell number; and the count of CD8 T cells was 700, accounting for 6.2% of the total cell number.
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In G02, the count of tumor cells was 2750, accounting for 27.5% of the total cell number; the count of macrophages was 4130, accounting for 41.3% of the total cell number; and the count of CD8 T cells was 1593, accounting for 15.9% of the total cell number.
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These results revealed that CD8 T cells were more abundant in the very-low-risk GIST sample than in the high-risk GIST sample.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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In contrast, macrophages were less abundant in the very-low-risk GIST sample than in the high-risk GIST sample.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Clinicopathological characteristics of two patients performed by single-cell RNA sequencing.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Cell clusters were visualized by uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) in these two tumors.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Distribution of infiltration cells in two tumors.
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G01: high risk GIST; G02: very low risk GIST.
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Cell counts of every cluster in two samples.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors regulate macrophage M2 polarization through the MIF/CXCR4 axis to immune escape
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Seven cell types were identified in the single-cell analysis.
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To further show the potential interactions between these cell types, CellChat was used to quantitatively infer and analyze cell-to-cell communication networks in tumor tissues.
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The interaction numbers and interaction weights of cell-to-cell were analyzed in G01 and G02 as shown in Figure 3 .
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The thicker lines showed more significant interaction between the cell clusters.
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These results showed the high interaction strength of tumor cells with macrophages and monocytes.
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Dataset Description
Dataset Summary This dataset has been extracted from Europe PMC (EPMC), a free database offering comprehensive access to life sciences research literature. EPMC aggregates content from various sources, including PubMed, arXiv, and other repositories, and provides open access to millions of scientific articles. This dataset has been generated as part of a project collaboration between Europe PMC, Open Targets, and ChEMBL] at EMBL-EBI.
Dataset Details
The dataset focuses on mentions of cell lines and related entities in biomedical text, such as cell types, related disease mentions, genes proteins etc. This makes it a valuable resource as it can be used for(but not limited to) the following downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks in the biomedical domain.
NLP Tasks
Named Entity Recognition (NER): Identify and classify mentions of cell lines or related entities appearing in biomedical contexts.
Relationship Extraction: Extract relationships between cell lines and other biomedical entities, such as genes, diseases, or drugs.
Text Classification: Classify sentences or articles based on their relevance to specific cell lines, particularly in cancer research or drug development.
Sentiment Analysis: Analyze the sentiment or tone of texts discussing cell lines, such as the evaluation of experimental results (positive or negative).
Information Retrieval: Develop systems to retrieve articles or specific mentions of cell lines based on user queries.
Entity Linking: Link cell line mentions in text to standardized identifiers in cell line ontologies or databases.
Question Answering (QA): Build systems that can answer specific questions about cell lines, such as their role in particular diseases or experiments.
Topic Modeling: Analyze the dataset to uncover major themes or trends in research involving cell lines.
Text Summarization: Automatically generate summaries of articles or sections discussing cell lines.
Who funded the creation of the dataset?
Any other comments?
The dataset aims to provide a foundational resource for advancing NLP in biomedicine.
Dataset Composition
- What experiments were initially run on this dataset? No experiments have been conducted yet. Updates will follow as they occur.
Data Collection Process
How was the data collected? The dataset was collected using the Europe PMC API. Articles marked as "open access" were retrieved, and those labeled as "retraction of publication" were excluded. Duplicate entries were filtered by ensuring unique PMCIDs.
Who was involved in the data collection process? The data collection process was carried out by researchers at EMBL-EBI, leveraging automated tools for querying and processing the Europe PMC repository.
Are there any known errors, sources of noise, or redundancies in the data? None have been identified yet.
Data Preprocessing
What preprocessing/cleaning was done?
- Only open-access articles were retrieved.
- Articles labeled as "retraction of publication" were excluded.
- Duplicate entries based on the PMCID column were removed.
- Paragraph text from each section of an article was Extracted with the relevant section referenced in the 'Section Column'
- Extra whitespace, inlne math/latex formatting and irrelevant sections such "Disclosure", "Publisher's note", etc, were filtered
- Name identifiers and personal data was also removed from the dataset
Dataset Distribution
How is the dataset distributed? The dataset is freely available for use and reproduction. Proper citation of the authors is required(Information to be updated).
When will the dataset be released/first distributed? To be updated.
Dataset Maintenance
Who is supporting/hosting/maintaining the dataset?
Europe PMC, and ChEMBL team responsible for the dataset's maintenance.
How does one contact the owner/curator/manager of the dataset?
Contact can be made via the community discussion forums on GitHub or Hugging Face.
Will the dataset be updated?
Yes, updates will occur as the project progresses.
How often and by whom?
Updates will be carried out periodically by the team.
How will updates/revisions be documented and communicated?
Updates will be documented via GitHub, using version tags.
Is there a repository to link to any/all papers/systems that use this dataset?
Yes, a GitHub repository will track publications and systems using this dataset.
If others want to extend/augment/build on this dataset, is there a mechanism for them to do so?
Yes, contributions are encouraged via GitHub. Quality will be assessed through pull requests, and accepted contributions will be communicated to users via version tags and release notes.
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