Head and neck cancers are etiologically associated with smoking and alcohol consumption. Part of these tumors is induced by HPV and their incidence is increasing in the last decade. Patients with virally induced tumors have better prognosis even though they are usually diagnosed with tumors in advanced stage. One of the possible explanations may be better stimulation of the immune system by viral antigens. Macrophages are cells of the innate immune system which belong to professional phagocytes. They are called TAM upon infiltration to the tumor where they represent heterogeneous group of cells. Two main phenotypes are antitumor M1 and protumor M2 macrophages. TAMs are a major component of tumor microenvironment of many types of tumors, one of them are also head and neck cancers. In my thesis I focused on the immunohistochemical detection of M1 and M2 macrophages in the head and neck tumors of viral and non-viral etiology and at the same time RT-qPCR analyses of gene expression of macrophage-associated and/or immunosuppressive genes IDO1, ARG1, CD163, NOS2 a PTGS2 was performed. My data showed that HPV- negative tumors had higher number of M2 macrophages with typical markers CD163, ARG1 and PTGS2. It is known that patients with these tumors have worse prognosis of the disease. Due to high...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:436710 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Dalewská, Natálie |
| Contributors | Tachezy, Ruth, Krulová, Magdaléna |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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