Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan; Center for Clinical Oncology, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan.
Cancer Lett. 2023 Jul 28;567:216260. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2023.216260. Epub 2023 Jun 7.
The involvement of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in cancer metastasis is being clarified, but the relationship between intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) and NETs remains unclear. The presence of NETs was verified by multiple fluorescence staining in clinically resected specimens of iCCA. Human neutrophils were co-cultured with iCCA cells to observe NET induction and changes in cellular characteristics. Binding of platelets to iCCA cells and its mechanism were also examined, and their effects on NETs were analyzed in vitro and in in vivo mouse models. NETs were present in the tumor periphery of resected iCCAs. NETs promoted the motility and migration ability of iCCA cells in vitro. Although iCCA cells alone had a weak NET-inducing ability, the binding of platelets to iCCA cells via P-selectin promoted NET induction. Based on these results, antiplatelet drugs were applied to these cocultures in vitro and inhibited the binding of platelets to iCCA cells and the induction of NETs. Fluorescently labeled iCCA cells were injected into the spleen of mice, resulting in the formation of liver micrometastases coexisting with platelets and NETs. These mice were treated with dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) consisting of aspirin and ticagrelor, which dramatically reduced micrometastases. These results suggest that potent antiplatelet therapy prevents micrometastases of iCCA cells by inhibiting platelet activation and NET production, and it may contribute to a novel therapeutic strategy.
中性粒细胞胞外诱捕网(NETs)在癌症转移中的作用机制正在被阐明,但肝内胆管癌(iCCA)与 NETs 之间的关系仍不清楚。通过对临床切除的 iCCA 标本进行多重荧光染色来验证 NETs 的存在。将人中性粒细胞与 iCCA 细胞共培养,观察 NET 的诱导和细胞特征的变化。还检查了血小板与 iCCA 细胞的结合及其机制,并在体外和体内小鼠模型中分析了它们对 NETs 的影响。NETs 存在于切除的 iCCA 肿瘤周边。NETs 促进了 iCCA 细胞在体外的迁移和迁移能力。尽管单独的 iCCA 细胞NET 诱导能力较弱,但 P-选择素介导的血小板与 iCCA 细胞的结合促进了 NET 的诱导。基于这些结果,将抗血小板药物应用于体外共培养物中,抑制了血小板与 iCCA 细胞的结合和 NET 的诱导。将荧光标记的 iCCA 细胞注射到小鼠脾脏中,导致存在与血小板和 NET 共存的肝脏微转移。这些小鼠接受了包含阿司匹林和替格瑞洛的双联抗血小板治疗(DAPT),显著减少了微转移。这些结果表明,通过抑制血小板激活和 NET 产生,强力抗血小板治疗可以预防 iCCA 细胞的微转移,可能为一种新的治疗策略提供依据。