ArticleOncology letters2019
TIM-3 expression and its association with overall survival in primary osteosarcoma.
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- Immunotherapy Innovations in the Fight against Osteosarcoma: Emerging Strategies and Promising Progress.Pharmaceutics · 2024Review
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- Immune checkpoints and cancer immunotherapies: insights into newly potential receptors and ligands.Therapeutic advances in vaccines and immunotherapy · 2023Review
- LncCCAT1 interaction protein PKM2 upregulates SREBP2 phosphorylation to promote osteosarcoma tumorigenesis by enhancing the Warburg effect and lipogenesis.International journal of oncology · 2022Article
- mAging · 2022Article
- T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing protein 3 is highly expressed in patients with acute decompensated heart failure and predicts mid-term prognosis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Markers of Immune Cell Exhaustion as Predictor of Survival in Surgically-Treated Early-Stage NSCLC.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Novel Immunotherapies for Osteosarcoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- Immunotherapy for osteosarcoma.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
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Abstract
T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing-3 (TIM-3) performs a critical function in immune tolerance by suppressing the activation and proliferation of T cells. TIM-3 serves an important role in tumor progression in a number of carcinomas, including non-small cell lung cancer, hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma, Langerhans cell sarcoma, head and neck cancer and follicular B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible association of TIM-3 with the prognosis of osteosarcoma. TIM-3 expression was assessed by immunohistochemical analysis in osteosarcoma tissues. The association between TIM-3 expression and prognosis was examined. To assess the association between TIM-3 expression levels and clinicopathological features, a Fisher's exact test was used. TIM-3 overexpression was indicated to be associated with surgical treatment and survival. Kaplan-Meier analysis indicated that TIM-3 is an independent predictor of overall survival, and its overexpression was indicated to be associated with poor prognosis in patients with osteosarcoma. Additionally, reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blot analysis were carried out to evaluate TIM-3 expression levels in fresh tumor tissue samples, adjacent-tissue samples, osteosarcoma cell lines, and in an osteoblastic cell line. TIM-3 was indicated to be overexpressed in fresh osteosarcoma tissue samples and in osteosarcoma cell lines. In conclusion, TIM-3 overexpression is associated with poor survival among patients with osteosarcoma and may be a possible therapeutic target in these types of tumors.
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