Project/Area Number |
15K15742
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Surgical dentistry
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Research Institution | Ehime University |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
中城 公一 愛媛大学, 医学系研究科, 准教授 (90314880)
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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Keywords | 口腔癌 / B細胞 / CXCL13 / 口腔扁平上皮癌 / B細胞 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Recently, immunotherapy has attracted attention as a novel treatment with cancer, and immunocheck point inhibitors against T cells and antibodies inducing ADCC activity of NK cells are used in clinical setting. In this study, the significance of B cells in oral cancer was examined. Assessment of the relationship between the number of B cells in oral cancer tissues by immunohistochemical staining and the survival rate revealed that the prognosis was better as B cells more invaded the cancer stroma. Furthermore, CXCL13, a B cell attracting cytokine, was highly expressed in the cancerous tissues as compared with the adjacent normal tissues.
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