Ferrone C, Dranoff G: Dual roles for immunity in gastrointestinal cancers. J Clin Oncol. 2010, 28 (26): 4045-4051. 10.1200/JCO.2010.27.9992.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Pagès F, Galon J, Dieu-Nosjean MC, Tartour E, Sautès-Fridman C, Fridman WH: Immune infiltration in human tumors: a prognostic factor that should not be ignored. Oncogene. 2010, 29 (8): 1093-1102. 10.1038/onc.2009.416.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Zhou Q, Peng RQ, Wu XJ, Xia Q, Hou JH, Ding Y, Zhou QM, Zhang X, Pang ZZ, Wan DS, Zeng YX, Zhang XS: The density of macrophages in the invasive front is inversely correlated to liver metastasis in colon cancer. J Transl Med. 2010, 8: 13-10.1186/1479-5876-8-13.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Peng RQ, Wu XJ, Ding Y, Li CY, Yu XJ, Zhang X, Pan ZZ, Wan DS, Zheng LM, Zeng YX, Zhang XS: Co-expression of nuclear and cytoplasmic HMGB1 is inversely associated with infiltration of CD45RO+ T cells and prognosis in patients with stage IIIB colon cancer. BMC Cancer. 2010, 10: 496-10.1186/1471-2407-10-496.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kmieciak M, Gowda M, Graham L, Godder K, Bear HD, Marincola FM, Manjili MH: Human T cells express CD25 and Foxp3 upon activation and exhibit effector/memory phenotypes without any regulatory/suppressor function. J Transl Med. 2009, 7: 89-10.1186/1479-5876-7-89.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gao YF, Peng RQ, Li J, Ding Y, Zhang X, Wu XJ, Pan ZZ, Wan DS, Zeng YX, Zhang XS: The paradoxical patterns of expression of indoleamine 2,3- dioxygenase in colon cancer. J Transl Med. 2009, 7: 71-10.1186/1479-5876-7-71.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Maltby S, Khazaie K, McNagny KM: Mast cells in tumor growth: angiogenesis, tissue remodelling and immune-modulation. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2009, 1796 (1): 19-26.
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ribatti D, Crivellato E: The controversial role of mast cells in tumor growth. Int Rev Cell Mol Biol. 2009, 275: 89-131.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Galinsky DS, Nechushtan H: Mast cells and cancer--no longer just basic science. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2008, 68 (2): 115-130. 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2008.06.001.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Groot Kormelink T, Abudukelimu A, Redegeld FA: Mast cells as target in cancer therapy. Curr Pharm Des. 2009, 15 (16): 1868-1878. 10.2174/138161209788453284.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gounaris E, Erdman SE, Restaino C, Gurish MF, Friend DS, Gounari F, Lee DM, Zhang G, Glickman JN, Shin K, Rao VP, Poutahidis T, Weissleder R, McNagny KM, Khazaie K: Mast cells are an essential hematopoietic component for polyp development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007, 104 (50): 19977-19982. 10.1073/pnas.0704620104.
Article
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gounaris E, Blatner NR, Dennis K, Magnusson F, Gurish MF, Strom TB, Beckhove P, Gounari F, Khazaie K: T-regulatory cells shift from a protective anti-inflammatory to a cancer-promoting proinflammatory phenotype in polyposis. Cancer Res. 2009, 69 (13): 5490-5497. 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-0304.
Article
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Fisher ER, Paik SM, Rockette H, Jones J, Caplan R, Fisher B: Prognostic significance of eosinophils and mast cells in rectal cancer: findings from the National Surgical Adjacent Breast and Bowel Project (protocol R-01). Hum Pathol. 1989, 20 (2): 159-163. 10.1016/0046-8177(89)90180-9.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Nielsen HJ, Hansen U, Christensen IJ, Reimert CM, Brünner N, Moesgaard F: Independent prognostic value of eosinophil and mast cell infiltration in colorectal cancer tissue. J Pathol. 1999, 189 (4): 487-495. 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199912)189:4<487::AID-PATH484>3.0.CO;2-I.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gulubova M, Vlaykova T: Prognostic significance of mast cell number and microvascular density for the survival of patients with primary colorectal cancer. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009, 24 (7): 1265-1275. 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2007.05009.x.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Yodavudh S, Tangjitgamol S, Puangsa-art S: Prognostic significance of microvessel density and mast cell density for the survival of Thai patients with primary colorectal cancer. J Med Assoc Thai. 2008, 91 (5): 723-732.
PubMed
Google Scholar
Acikalin MF, Oner U, Topçu I, Yaşar B, Kiper H, Colak E: Tumour angiogenesis and mast cell density in the prognostic assessment of colorectal carcinomas. Dig Liver Dis. 2005, 37 (3): 162-169. 10.1016/j.dld.2004.09.028.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Tan SY, Fan Y, Luo HS, Shen ZX, Guo Y, Zhao LJ: Prognostic significance of cell infiltrations of immunosurveillance in colorectal cancer. World J Gastroenterol. 2005, 11 (8): 1210-1214.
Article
PubMed Central
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kalady MF, Sanchez JA, Manilich E, Hammel J, Casey G, Church JM: Divergent Oncogenic Changes Influence Survival Differences between Colon and Rectal Adenocarcinomas. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 2009, 52 (6): 1039-1045. 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819edbd4.
Article
Google Scholar
Guidolin D, Nico B, Crivellato E, Marzullo A, Vacca A, Ribatti D: Tumoral mast cells exhibit a common spatial distribution. Cancer Lett. 2009, 273 (1): 80-85. 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.07.032.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Nechushtan H: The complexity of the complicity of mast cells in cancer. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2010, 42 (5): 551-554. 10.1016/j.biocel.2009.12.015.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Crivellato E, Nico B, Ribatti D: Mast cell contribution to tumor angiogenesis: a clinical approach. Eur Cytokine Netw. 2009, 20 (4): 197-206.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Crivellato E, Nico B, Ribatti D: Mast cells and tumour angiogenesis: new insight from experimental carcinogenesis. Cancer Lett. 2008, 269 (1): 1-6. 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.03.031.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Galli SJ, Grimbaldeston M, Tsai M: Immunomodulatory mast cells: negative, as well as positive, regulators of immunity. Nat Rev Immunol. 2008, 8 (6): 478-486. 10.1038/nri2327.
Article
PubMed Central
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kalesnikoff J, Galli SJ: New developments in mast cell biology. Nat Immunol. 2008, 9 (11): 478-1223.
Article
Google Scholar
Cochran AJ, Huang RR, Lee J, Itakura E, Leong SP, Essner R: Tumour-induced immune modulation of sentinel lymph nodes. Nat Rev Immunol. 2006, 6 (9): 659-670. 10.1038/nri1919.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Preynat-Seauve O, Contassot E, Schuler P, Piguet V, French LE, Huard B: Extralymphatic tumors prepare draining lymph nodes to invasion via a T-cell cross-tolerance process. Cancer Res. 2007, 67 (10): 5009-5016. 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-4494.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
O'Connell JB, Maggard MA, Ko CY: Colon cancer survival rates with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition staging. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004, 96 (19): 1420-1425. 10.1093/jnci/djh275.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar