Abstract
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) develop in the human tumor microenvironment and correlate with prolonged survival in most cancer types. We recently demonstrated that TLS development follows sequential maturation stages and culminates in the generation of a germinal center (GC) reaction. This maturation process is crucial for the prognostic relevance of TLS in lung and colorectal cancer patients.
The mechanisms underlying TLS development in various inflammatory conditions or their functional relevance in tumor immunity are not fully understood. Investigating which cell types and soluble mediators orchestrate lymphoid neogenesis in human tissues requires a method that allows simultaneous detection of multiple markers.
Here, we describe a quantitative pathology approach to identify and quantify different TLS maturation stages in combination with other parameters. This approach consists of seven-color immunofluorescence protocol using tyramide signal amplification combined with multispectral microscopy and quantitative data acquisition from histological images.
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This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Sciex Foundation, the Science Foundation for Oncology, the Cancer League Zurich, the University Research Priority Program “Translational Cancer Research,” and the Swiss Cancer League.
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Siliņa, K., Burkhardt, C., Casanova, R., Solterman, A., van den Broek, M. (2018). A Quantitative Pathology Approach to Analyze the Development of Human Cancer-Associated Tertiary Lymphoid Structures. In: Dieu-Nosjean, MC. (eds) Tertiary Lymphoid Structures. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1845. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8709-2_5
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