Epithelial-mesenchymal transition may be involved in the immune evasion of circulating gastric tumor cells via downregulation of NKG2D ligands

Baoguang Hu; Xiaokun Tian; Yanbin Li; Yuming Li; Zhaodong Han; Jiajia An; Lingqun Kong

doi:10.18632/oncotarget.23922

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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition may be involved in the immune evasion of circulating gastric tumor cells via downregulation of NKG2D ligands

Baoguang Hu, Xiaokun Tian, Yanbin Li, Yuming Li _, Zhaodong Han, Jiajia An and Lingqun Kong

Baoguang Hu1,*, Xiaokun Tian1,2,*, Yanbin Li1, Yuming Li1, Zhaodong Han3, Jiajia An3 and Lingqun Kong4

1Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Binzhou, Shandong, China

2Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, The Sixth People’s Hospital of Zibo, Zibo, Shandong, China

3Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Binzhou, Shandong, China

4Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University, Binzhou, Shandong, China

*These authors have contributed equally to this work

Correspondence to:

Yuming Li, email: [email protected]

Jiajia An, email: [email protected]

Keywords: gastric cancer; circulating tumor cells; immune evasion; epithelial-mesenchymal transition; transforming growth factor-beta 1

Received: July 11, 2017 Accepted: November 17, 2017 Published: January 04, 2018

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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition may be involved in the immune evasion of circulating gastric tumor cells via downregulation of NKG2D ligands