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The contribution of immune infiltrates and the local microenvironment in the pathogenesis of osteosarcoma

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Heymann, Marie-Françoise, Lézot, Frédéric, Heymann, Dominique·2019·Cellular Immunology

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Osteosarcoma is a rare primary bone cancer characterized by cancer cells producing calcified osteoid extracellular matrix and inducing lung metastases with a high frequency. The local microenvironment defined several tumor niches controlling the tumor growth and cell extravasation. The immune infiltrate composes one of these niches. The immune environment of osteosarcoma is mainly composed by T-lymphocytes and macrophages but also contains other subpopulations including B-lymphocytes and mast cells. Osteosarcoma cells control the recruitment and differentiation of immune infiltrating cells and establish a local immune tolerant environment favorable to the tumor growth, drug resistance and the occurrence of metastases. Osteosarcoma cells are able to affect the balance between M1 and M2 macrophage subtypes and so could control the T-lymphocyte responses via the PD-1/PDL-1 system. In addition, mesenchymal stem cells may also contribute to this immune tolerance and strengthen the immune evasion. The present review gives a brief overview of the immune components of osteosarcoma and their most recent therapeutic interests.

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  • The seed and soil phenomenon in osteosarcoma is driven by a microenvironment that modulates osteosarcoma cell behaviour and facilitates proliferation, quiescence, invasion, migration and drug resistance, and contributes to intrinsic heterogeneity.

    “This seed and soil phenomenon is driven by a microenvironment that modulates osteosarcoma cell behaviour and facilitates proliferation, quiescence, invasion, migration, and drug resistance 15,51,52,53 and contributes to their intrinsic heterogeneity 54,55 .”

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Authors
Heymann, M.-F., Lézot, F., & Heymann, D.
Affiliations
Inserm (FR)
Corresponding author
Heymann, Dominique
Venue
Cellular Immunology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-09
Volume
343
Issue
1
Pages
103711
ISSN
0008-8749 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2766090242
Cited by
233
References
125
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 1
FWCI
2.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cellular Immunology (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Funders
Bone Cancer Research Trust (144681)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Keywords
osteosarcoma, tumor microenvironment, tumor immune infiltrate, T cells, macrophages, macrophage polarization, PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, immune evasion, mesenchymal stem cells, mast cells, B cells, lung metastasis, drug resistance, immunotherapy
MeSH terms
Animals, Bone Neoplasms, Humans, Macrophages, Osteosarcoma, Lymphocyte Subsets, Tumor Microenvironment, Mesenchymal Stem Cells

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