Efeito imunomodulador de baixas concentrações de antineoplásicos

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Frederico, Juliana Cristina Longo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Agentes antineoplasicos; Intestino grosso - Câncer; Quimioterapia; Proteinas de choque termico; Intestine, Large Cancer; Antineoplastic agents
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108653

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the main causes of death worldwide and its conventional treatment is based on surgery, cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, or a combination of these therapeutic modalities. The main chemotherapeutic agents for fighting CRC are metrotexate, 5-aza-2-deoxycitidine, taxans and 5-fluorouracil. Usually, their administration is based on maximum tolerable doses, but it has been shown that low concentrations of most of these drugs upregulate the immune system, both enhancing the immune responsiveness and increasing the immunogenicity of tumor cells. These features are associated with translational changes of a couple of genes, among them, there is an increased expression of heat-shock proteins (HSPs). Although the expression of HSPs may represent an adaptive response of tumor cells to the drug-induced damages, there is evidence that some of these proteins are fundamental for antigen processing and presentation by antigen-presenting cells. Then, in the present review we aimed to show that increased expression of HSPs by drug-treated tumor cells may be favorable for the development of an effective immune response, and that this phenomenon should enhance the combinatory schedules of chemotherapy and immunotherapy