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ImmuneImmune
DisordersDisorders
Dr. Mohamed Labib Salem
Prof. of Immunology
Faculty of Science
Tanta University
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Immune DisordersImmune Disorders
1. Hypo immunity
 Cancer
 Chemotherapy
1. Hyper immunity
 Autoimmunity
 Hypersensitivity (types I, II, III, IV)
1. Failure of immunity
 Infection (Bacteria-Viruses-Fungus – parasites -
protozoa)
Cancer
What Causes Cancer?
Some viruses or bacteria
Heredity
Diet
Hormones
RadiationSome chemicals
Causes of
Immune
disorders
Genes and Cancer
Chromosomes
are DNA
molecules
Heredity
RadiationChemicals
Viruses
Causes of Immune
disorders
DNA Mutation
Additions
Deletions
Normal gene
Single base change
DNA
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T
A G C G A A C TAC
A G G C G C T AAC A C T
A G C T A A C TAC
A G A A C TAC
Causes
of
Immune
disorders
Loss of Normal Growth Control
Cancer
cell division
Fourth or
later mutation
Third
mutation
Second
mutation
First
mutation
Uncontrolled growth
Cell Suicide or Apoptosis
Cell damage—
no repair
Normal
cell division
Different Kinds of Cancer
Lung
Breast (women)
Colon
Bladder
Prostate (men)
Some common
sarcomas:
Fat
Bone
Muscle
Lymphomas:
Lymph nodes
Leukemias:
Bloodstream
Some common
carcinomas:
Naming Cancers
Prefix Meaning
adeno- gland
chondro- cartilage
erythro- red blood cell
hemangio- blood vessels
hepato- liver
lipo- fat
lympho- lymphocyte
melano- pigment cell
myelo- bone marrow
myo- muscle
osteo- bone
Cancer Prefixes Point to Location
Malignant versus Benign Tumors
Malignant (cancer)
cells invade
neighboring tissues,
enter blood vessels,
and metastasize to
different sites
Time
Benign (not cancer)
tumor cells grow
only locally and cannot
spread by invasion or
metastasis
Invasion and Metastasis
3
Cancer cells
reinvade and grow
at new location
1
Cancer cells invade
surrounding tissues
and blood vessels
2
Cancer cells are
transported by the
circulatory system
to distant sites
Cancer stagesCancer stages
Cancer Tends to Involve Multiple Mutations
Malignant cells invade
neighboring tissues, enter
blood vessels, and
metastasize to different sites
More mutations,
more genetic
instability,
metastatic
disease
Proto-oncogenes
mutate to
oncogenes
Mutations
inactivate
DNA repair
genes
Cells
proliferate
Mutation
inactivates
suppressor
gene
Benign tumor cells
grow only locally and
cannot spread by
invasion or metastasis
Time
Cancer Tends to
Corrupt Surrounding Environment
Growth factors = proliferation
Blood vessel
Proteases
Cytokines
Matrix
Fibroblasts,
adipocytes
Invasive
Cytokines, proteases = migration & invasion
Immune surveillance/editing of tumors
Anti-tumor immune responses
Effectors that can kill Cancer
Antibody
Helper T cell
Natura
l killer
cell
Macrophage
Cytotoxic T
cell
Cancer cells
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
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Typical Events Essential for Anti-tumor Immunity
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
The smart interaction
Immune
cells
Cancer
Cells
Cancer
cellsHost Tumor
microenvironment
Why does cancerWhy does cancer
therapy fail?therapy fail?
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
Melanoma growthMelanoma growth
in micein mice
Melanoma metastasis
into lung
• Tumor cells originate from self (not foreign)
• Tumor favor expansion of Regulatory cells that
inhibit tumor-specific T-cell activities
• Downregulation of Ag expression in tumor cells.
• Secretion of immunosuppressive factors.
• Death-receptors such as CD95 and TRAIL receptor
are mutated or lost entirely.
• Secretion of factors that favor emergence of
suppressor immune cells such as Treg cells and
myeloid derived suppressorcells
Causes of Failure of Cancer Immunotherapy
Intrinsic mechanisms
Causes of Failure of Cancer Immunotherapy
Intrinsic/extrinsic mechanisms
Causes of Failure of Cancer Immunotherapy
Extrinsic mechanisms
• Tumor-specific T cells are absent.
• Tumor-reactive immune cells do not
localize to the tumor.
• T cells fail to proliferate and persist in
response to tumors.
• Emergence and sustainability of suppressor
immune cells such as Treg cells and
myeloid derived suppressorcells
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
Clinically
Un-detectable
Localized
Disease
Advanced
Disease
1:10,000 T cells 1:50 T cells 1:2 T cells
DiseaseBurden
Causes of Failure of Cancer Immunotherapy
High tumor cells/T cell ratio
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
0
2
4
6
8
1 3 5 7 10 14 21 30 60 120
CD8+Tcellresponse
Days Post Vaccination
Rapid expansion Rapid
contraction
Low
memory
10
12
Tumor antigen alone
Tumor antigen
+ Danger signal
Causes of Failure of Cancer Immunotherapy
Rapid contraction of T cells upon vaccination
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
Regulatory
immune cells
Immunity is controlled by the balance between
stimulatory/regulatory cells
Treg
MDSC
NKT cells
B cells
pDCs
Stimulatory
immune cells
Dendritic cells
CD4+ T cells
CD8+ T cells
NK cells
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
Tumor-induced Immune Dysfunction
MDSC
IL-10
Arginase
ROS, RNS
IDO: depletes L-
tryptophan, results in T
cell unresponsiveness
Inhibitory/
death R:s
Inhibitory/
death receptors:
FasL
TGF-β
PGE2
ROS, RNS:
reactive oxygen
species results in
T cell un-
responsiveness
TGF- and or IL-10 fromβ
Treg, MDSC, and tumor
cells suppress T cells
Treg
IDO
MDSC/
DC
Arginase: depletes L-
arginine, results in T cell
unresponsiveness
Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem
Suppression of anti-tumor immunity
by myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC)
Cancer
Immunotherapy
Melanoma metastasis
into lung
THANK
YOU
Prof. Mohamed
Labib Salem

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Immune disordes: cancer, Prof. Mohamed Labib Salem

Editor's Notes

  1. Cancer is often perceived as a disease that strikes for no apparent reason. While scientists don’t yet know all the reasons, many of the causes of cancer have already been identified. Besides intrinsic factors such as heredity, diet, and hormones, scientific studies point to key extrinsic factors that contribute to the cancer’s development: chemicals (e.g., smoking), radiation, and viruses or bacteria.
  2. Chemicals (e.g., from smoking), radiation, viruses, and heredity all contribute to the development of cancer by triggering changes in a cell’s genes. Chemicals and radiation act by damaging genes, viruses introduce their own genes into cells, and heredity passes on alterations in genes that make a person more susceptible to cancer. Genes are inherited instructions that reside within a person’s chromosomes. Each gene instructs a cell how to build a specific product--in most cases, a particular kind of protein. Genes are altered, or “mutated,” in various ways as part of the mechanism by which cancer arises.
  3. Genes can be mutated in several different ways. The simplest type of mutation involves a change in a single base along the base sequence of a particular gene--much like a typographical error in a word that has been misspelled. In other cases, one or more bases may be added or deleted. And sometimes, large segments of a DNA molecule are accidentally repeated, deleted, or moved.
  4. Cancer arises from a loss of normal growth control. In normal tissues, the rates of new cell growth and old cell death are kept in balance. In cancer, this balance is disrupted. This disruption can result from uncontrolled cell growth or loss of a cell’s ability to undergo cell suicide by a process called“apoptosis.” Apoptosis, or “cell suicide,” is the mechanism by which old or damaged cells normally self-destruct.
  5. Cancer can originate almost anywhere in the body. Carcinomas, the most common types of cancer, arise from the cells that cover external and internal body surfaces. Lung, breast, and colon are the most frequent cancers of this type in the United States. Sarcomas are cancers arising from cells found in the supporting tissues of the body such as bone, cartilage, fat, connective tissue, and muscle. Lymphomas are cancers that arise in the lymph nodes and tissues of the body’s immune system. Leukemias are cancers of the immature blood cells that grow in the bone marrow and tend to accumulate in large numbers in the bloodstream.
  6. Scientists use a variety of technical names to distinguish the many different types of carcinomas, sarcomas, lymphomas, and leukemias. In general, these names are created by using different Latin prefixes that stand for the location where the cancer began its unchecked growth. For example, the prefix “osteo” means bone, so a cancer arising in bone is called an osteosarcoma. Similarly, the prefix “adeno” means gland, so a cancer of gland cells is called adenocarcinoma--for example, a breast adenocarcinoma.
  7. Depending on whether or not they can spread by invasion and metastasis, tumors are classified as being either benign or malignant. Benign tumors are tumors that cannot spread by invasion or metastasis; hence, they only grow locally. Malignant tumors are tumors that are capable of spreading by invasion and metastasis. By definition, the term “cancer” applies only to malignant tumors.
  8. Cancers are capable of spreading throughout the body by two mechanisms: invasion and metastasis. Invasion refers to the direct migration and penetration by cancer cells into neighboring tissues. Metastasis refers to the ability of cancer cells to penetrate into lymphatic and blood vessels, circulate through the bloodstream, and then invade normal tissues elsewhere in the body.
  9. Cancer may begin because of the accumulation of mutations involving oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and DNA repair genes. For example, colon cancer can begin with a defect in a tumor suppressor gene that allows excessive cell proliferation. The proliferating cells then tend to acquire additional mutations involving DNA repair genes, other tumor suppressor genes, and many other growth-related genes. Over time, the accumulated damage can yield a highly malignant, metastatic tumor. In other words, creating a cancer cell requires that the brakes on cell growth (tumor suppressor genes) be released at the same time that the accelerators for cell growth (oncogenes) are being activated.
  10. In addition to all the molecular changes that occur within a cancer cell, the environment around the tumor changes dramatically as well. The cancer cell loses receptors that would normally respond to neighboring cells that call for growth to stop. Instead, tumors amplify their own supply of growth signals. They also flood their neighbors with other signals called cytokines and enzymes called proteases. This action destroys both the basement membrane and surrounding matrix, which lies between the tumor and its path to metastasis--a blood vessel or duct of the lymphatic system.