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Hypoxia promotes the tolerogenic phenotype of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Cancer medicine - 1 Feb 2022
Fan Cui, Wu Jichang, Shen Yilin, Hu Haixia, Wang Quan, Mao Yufeng, Ye Bin, Xiang Mingliang
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OBJECTIVE: We aim to review the roles of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and explore the effects of hypoxia on the tolerogenic transformation of pDCs. BACKGROUND: pDCs, best known as professional type I interferon-secreting cells, play key roles in immune surveillance and antitumor immunity. Recently, pDCs have been shown to be tolerogenic and correlate with...
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