Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.

The cancer microenvironment plays a pivotal role in oncogenesis, containing a number of regulatory cells that attenuate the anti-neoplastic immune response. While the negative prognostic impact of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the context of most solid tissue tumors is well established, their role i...

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Main Authors: Dammy Pinheiro, Yu-Mei Chang, Hannah Bryant, Balazs Szladovits, Tim Dalessandri, Lucy J Davison, Elizabeth Yallop, Emily Mills, Chiara Leo, Ana Lara, Anneliese Stell, Gerry Polton, Oliver A Garden
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105027
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author Dammy Pinheiro
Yu-Mei Chang
Hannah Bryant
Balazs Szladovits
Tim Dalessandri
Lucy J Davison
Elizabeth Yallop
Emily Mills
Chiara Leo
Ana Lara
Anneliese Stell
Gerry Polton
Oliver A Garden
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Yu-Mei Chang
Hannah Bryant
Balazs Szladovits
Tim Dalessandri
Lucy J Davison
Elizabeth Yallop
Emily Mills
Chiara Leo
Ana Lara
Anneliese Stell
Gerry Polton
Oliver A Garden
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description The cancer microenvironment plays a pivotal role in oncogenesis, containing a number of regulatory cells that attenuate the anti-neoplastic immune response. While the negative prognostic impact of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the context of most solid tissue tumors is well established, their role in lymphoid malignancies remains unclear. T cells expressing FOXP3 and Helios were documented in the fine needle aspirates of affected lymph nodes of dogs with spontaneous multicentric B cell lymphoma (BCL), proposed to be a model for human non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Multivariable analysis revealed that the frequency of lymph node FOXP3(+) T cells was an independent negative prognostic factor, impacting both progression-free survival (hazard ratio 1.10; p = 0.01) and overall survival (hazard ratio 1.61; p = 0.01) when comparing dogs showing higher than the median FOXP3 expression with those showing the median value of FOXP3 expression or less. Taken together, these data suggest the existence of a population of Tregs operational in canine multicentric BCL that resembles thymic Tregs, which we speculate are co-opted by the tumor from the periphery. We suggest that canine multicentric BCL represents a robust large animal model of human diffuse large BCL, showing clinical, cytological and immunophenotypic similarities with the disease in man, allowing comparative studies of immunoregulatory mechanisms.
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spelling doaj-art-7e8aab657afb416f907f2b635c2fc90e2025-08-20T03:46:23ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0198e10502710.1371/journal.pone.0105027Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.Dammy PinheiroYu-Mei ChangHannah BryantBalazs SzladovitsTim DalessandriLucy J DavisonElizabeth YallopEmily MillsChiara LeoAna LaraAnneliese StellGerry PoltonOliver A GardenThe cancer microenvironment plays a pivotal role in oncogenesis, containing a number of regulatory cells that attenuate the anti-neoplastic immune response. While the negative prognostic impact of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the context of most solid tissue tumors is well established, their role in lymphoid malignancies remains unclear. T cells expressing FOXP3 and Helios were documented in the fine needle aspirates of affected lymph nodes of dogs with spontaneous multicentric B cell lymphoma (BCL), proposed to be a model for human non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Multivariable analysis revealed that the frequency of lymph node FOXP3(+) T cells was an independent negative prognostic factor, impacting both progression-free survival (hazard ratio 1.10; p = 0.01) and overall survival (hazard ratio 1.61; p = 0.01) when comparing dogs showing higher than the median FOXP3 expression with those showing the median value of FOXP3 expression or less. Taken together, these data suggest the existence of a population of Tregs operational in canine multicentric BCL that resembles thymic Tregs, which we speculate are co-opted by the tumor from the periphery. We suggest that canine multicentric BCL represents a robust large animal model of human diffuse large BCL, showing clinical, cytological and immunophenotypic similarities with the disease in man, allowing comparative studies of immunoregulatory mechanisms.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105027
spellingShingle Dammy Pinheiro
Yu-Mei Chang
Hannah Bryant
Balazs Szladovits
Tim Dalessandri
Lucy J Davison
Elizabeth Yallop
Emily Mills
Chiara Leo
Ana Lara
Anneliese Stell
Gerry Polton
Oliver A Garden
Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.
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title Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.
title_full Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.
title_fullStr Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.
title_full_unstemmed Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.
title_short Dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: evidence of a negative prognostic impact of FOXP3+ T cells in canine B cell lymphoma.
title_sort dissecting the regulatory microenvironment of a large animal model of non hodgkin lymphoma evidence of a negative prognostic impact of foxp3 t cells in canine b cell lymphoma
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105027
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