Lecture
Research progress on eosinophils in lung cancer
Wei Yaqin, Lyu Lihua, Li Ming
Published 2023-11-06
Cite as Chin J Prev Med, 2023, 57(11): 1895-1900. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20230421-00312
Abstract
Eosinophils are important immune cells that contain eosinophilic particles and play a key role in allergic diseases such as asthma and helminth infections. An increasing number of studies have confirmed that eosinophils infiltrate a variety of tumor tissues, which can synthesize and secrete a large number of bioactive substances under certain circumstances, such as cytotoxic cationic proteins, cytokines, growth factors, chemokines, enzymes and so on, which may affect angiogenesis and matrix remodeling or change the tumor microenvironment, thereby affecting tumor progression. This review focused on the role of eosinophils in lung cancer and provided an outlook on the issues in clinical and basic research.
Key words:
Eosinophil; Lung cancer; Tumor microenvironment; Immunotherapy; Biomarker
Contributor Information
Wei Yaqin
School of Laboratory Medicine, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233030, China
Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230032, China
Lyu Lihua
Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230032, China
Li Ming
Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230032, China