胰腺癌
中性粒细胞胞外陷阱
转移
血栓调节蛋白
医学
癌症研究
外渗
炎症
癌细胞
恶性肿瘤
癌症
凝血酶
内科学
病理
血小板
作者
Hiroki Kajioka,Shunsuke Kagawa,Atene Ito,M. Yoshimoto,Shuichi Sakamoto,Satoru Kikuchi,Shinji Kuroda,Ryuichi Yoshida,Yuzo Umeda,Kazuhiro Noma,Hiroshi Tazawa,Toshiyoshi Fujiwara
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.canlet.2020.10.015
摘要
Surgery is the only curative treatment option for pancreatic cancer, but patients often develop postoperative recurrence. Surgical invasiveness might be involved in the mechanism of recurrence. The associations among inflammation caused by surgery, neutrophils, and cancer metastasis were investigated. At first, neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) were examined in clinical specimens, and NETs were observed around metastatic tumors. To explore how NETs were induced, neutrophils were cultured with pancreatic cancer or in cancer-conditioned medium. Neutrophils formed NETs when they were cultured with pancreatic cancer or even its conditioned medium. The effects of NETs on cancer cells were further investigated in vitro and in vivo. NETs induced the epithelial to mesenchymal transition in cancer cells and thereby promoted their migration and invasion. HMGB1 derived from NETs appeared to potentiate the malignancy of cancer cells. In a mouse model of liver metastasis with inflammation, NETs participated in the metastatic process by enhancing extravasation. Interestingly, thrombomodulin degraded HMGB1 and consequently inhibited the induction of NETs, thereby preventing pancreatic cancer metastasis to the liver. In conclusion, NETs interact reciprocally with pancreatic cancer cells, which play a pivotal role in inflammation-associated metastasis. Targeting NETs with thrombomodulin can be a novel strategy to improve the surgical outcome of pancreatic cancer patients.
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