Publications by authors named "Meredith Frank"

Background: A better understanding of T cells in lung cancer and their distribution across tumor-adjacent lungs and peripheral blood is needed to improve efficacy and minimize toxicity from immunotherapy to lung cancer patients.

Methods: Here, we performed CDR3β TCR sequencing of 136 samples from 20 patients with early-stage NSCLC including peripheral blood mononuclear cells, tumors, tumor edges (<1 cm from tumor), as well as adjacent lungs 1 cm, 2 cm, 5 cm, and 10 cm away from the tumor to gain insight into the spatial heterogeneity of T cells across the lungs in patients with NSCLC. PD-L1, CD4, and CD8 expression was assessed using immunohistochemical staining, and genomic features were derived by targeted sequencing of 1,021 cancer-related genes.

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T cells are integral components of the adaptive immune system, and their responses are mediated by unique T-cell receptors (TCR) that recognize specific antigens from a variety of biological contexts. As a result, analyzing the T-cell repertoire offers a better understanding of immune responses and of diseases like cancer. Next-generation sequencing technologies have greatly enabled the high-throughput analysis of the TCR repertoire.

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Objectives: Pathologists have routinely observed distinct histologic patterns of growth in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), which have been suggested to be associated with prognosis. Herein, we investigated the relationship between LUAD patterns of growth, as defined by the updated international association for the study of lung cancer (IASLC) grading criteria, and differences in the tumor immune microenvironment to identify predictors of response to immunotherapy.

Methods: 174 resected stage I-III LUAD tumors were classified by histologic pattern of growth (i.

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  • - The study investigates improving tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) production from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cases through a new culture technique, focusing on generating a higher quantity and quality of TILs for adoptive cell transfer (ACT) in patients resistant to standard immunotherapies.
  • - Two methods were compared: the traditional IL-2 only approach and an enhanced version using IL-2 paired with specific antibodies in a culture system that resulted in significantly more CD8 TILs and demonstrated a shorter production time.
  • - Results indicated that the new method (TIL 3.0) not only increased the number of TILs produced (5.3 times more) but also maintained a more
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Granulomatous arteritis characterizes the pathology of giant cell arteritis, granulomatous aortitis, and intracerebral varicella zoster virus (VZV) vasculopathy. Because intracerebral VZV vasculopathy and giant cell arteritis are strongly associated with productive VZV infection in cerebral and temporal arteries, respectively, we evaluated human aortas for VZV antigen and VZV DNA. Using 3 different anti-VZV antibodies, we identified VZV antigen in 11 of 11 aortas with pathologically verified granulomatous arteritis, in 1 of 1 cases of nongranulomatous arteritis, and in 5 of 18 control aortas (28%) obtained at autopsy.

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To determine the role of cell-cycle proteins in regulating pathological renal hypertrophy, diabetes was induced in mice expressing a human retinoblastoma (RB) transgene and in wild-type littermates. Whole-kidney and glomerular hypertrophy caused by hyperglycemia was associated with specific G1 phase cell-cycle events: early and sustained increase in expression of cyclin D1 and activation of cyclin D1-cdk4 complexes, but no change in expression of cyclin E or cdk2 activity. Overexpression of RB alone likewise caused hypertrophy and increased only cyclin D1-cdk4 activity; these effects were not further augmented by high glucose.

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