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UVC-Induced Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage Repair Status in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients with Different Responses to Nivolumab Therapy.

Christina Papanikolaou, Panagiota Economopoulou, Niki Gavrielatou, Dimitra Mavroeidi, Amanda Psyrri, Vassilis L Souliotis

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Article in Biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Elucidating DNA Damage-Dependent Immune System Activation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Christina PapanikolaouInstitute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 11635 Athens, Greece.
Panagiota EconomopoulouSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology Section, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8871-3264
Niki GavrielatouSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology Section, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1380-6831
Dimitra MavroeidiInstitute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 11635 Athens, Greece.
Amanda PsyrriSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology Section, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Vassilis L SouliotisInstitute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 11635 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-2945-1329

Funding

Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology (HeSMO) BΠΠΚ, ΕΒΔ509/10-07-2023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulation of evidence highlighted the crosstalk between DNA damage repair and the immune system. Herein, we tested the hypothesis that in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), the DNA repair capacity of patients' PBMCs correlates with therapeutic response to immune checkpoint blockade. Following in vitro UVC irradiation, oxidative stress, apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) lesions, endogenous/baseline DNA damage, and DNA damage repair efficiency were evaluated in three HNSCC (UM-SCC-11A, Cal-33, BB49) and two normal cell lines (RPMI-1788, 1BR-3h-T), as well as in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from 15 healthy controls (HC) and 49 recurrent/metastatic HNSCC patients at baseline (8 responders, 41 non-responders to subsequent nivolumab therapy). HNSCC cell lines showed lower DNA repair efficiency, increased oxidative stress, and higher AP sites than normal ones (all

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apurinic/apyrimidinic lesionsDNA damage repairendogenous/baseline DNA damagehead and neck squamous cell carcinomaimmune checkpoint blockadeoxidative stress status

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PMID40001963
PMCPMC11852043

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