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ArticleMedicine2021

The role of CXCL10 in prognosis of patients with colon cancer and tumor microenvironment remodeling.

Weiwei Song, Hongli Yin, Chenguang Han, Qiantai Mao, Jing Tang, Zhaoshuai Ji, Xu Yan, Lan Wang, Shengnan Liu, Chao Ai

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Article in Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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10 authors.

Weiwei SongBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Hongli YinGerman Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2043-5066
Chenguang HanBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Qiantai MaoBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Jing TangBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Zhaoshuai JiBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Xu YanBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Lan WangBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Shengnan LiuBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.
Chao AiBeijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University. Beijing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroungTumor microenvironment (TME) has gradually emerged as an important research topic in the fight against cancer. The immune system is a major contributing factor in TME, and investigations have revealed that tumors are partially infiltrated with numerous immune cell subsets.

methodWe obtained transcriptome RNA-seq data from the the Cancer Genome Atlas databases for 521 patients with colon adenocarcinoma (COAD). ESTIMATE algorithms are then used to estimate the fraction of stromal and immune cells in COAD samples.

resultA total of 1109 stromal-immune score-related differentially expressed genes were identified and used to generate a high-confidence protein-protein interaction network and univariate COX regression analysis. C-X-C motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10) was identified as the core gene by intersection analysis of data from protein-protein interaction network and univariate COX regression analysis. Then, for CXCL10, we performed gene set enrichment analysis, survival analysis and clinical analysis, and we used CIBERSORT algorithms to estimate the proportion of tumor-infiltrating immune cells in COAD samples.

conclusionWe discovered that CXCL10 levels could be effective for predicting the prognosis of COAD patients as well as a clue that the status of TME is transitioning from immunological to metabolic activity, which provided additional information for COAD therapies.

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Tumor MicroenvironmentAgedBiomarkers, TumorChemokine CXCL10Colonic NeoplasmsHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisBiomarkers, TumorChemokine CXCL10CXCL10 protein, human

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PMID34559115
PMCPMC10545341

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