Journal: Journal for immunotherapy of cancer
Article Title: Neoadjuvant toripalimab combined with axitinib in patients with locally advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a single-arm, phase II trial.
doi: 10.1136/jitc-2023-008475
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 4 (A and B) MRI and pathological alterations in patients before and after axitinib plus toripalimab administration. (A) Example of highly immune infiltrated tumor; (B) example of minimally infiltrated tumor. ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient. (C) Baseline biomarkers correlated with response to treatment analyzed by NanoString IO 360. The volcano plot displays differential gene expression at baseline. (D). Relative fraction of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Each row represents an immune cell subpopulation estimated by multiplexed immunofluorescence, including the density of PD1+ cells, PD1+CD8+ cells, PD- L1+ cells, PD-L1+CK+ cells, CD3+ cells, CD4+ cells, CD8+ cells, CD20+ cells, CD56+ cells, FOXP3+ cells, CD68+CD163- macrophage cells M1, CD68+CD163+ macrophage cells M2. The relative infiltrations of each lymphocyte subpopulations were normalized into a z-score. (E). Comparison of density levels of tumor-infiltrating PD1+ cells, PD1+CD8+ cells, PD-L1+ cells, PD- L1+CK+ cells between partial response (PR) and SD patients. *, p<0.05. (F). Comparison of density levels of tumor-infiltrating CD3+ cells, CD4+ cells, CD8+ cells, CD20+ cells, CD56+ cells, FOXP3+ cells, M1 macrophages, and M2 macrophages between PR and SD patients. No significant differences were found. (G). Representative multiplexed immunofluorescence images showing the simultaneous staining of panel 1 (left): DAPI (blue), CD8+ (red), PD-1+ (green), PD-L1+ (yellow), and CK (gray). Panel 2 (right): DAPI (blue), CD3+ (red), CD4+ (green), FOXP3+ (yellow), CD20+ (orange), and CK (gray) in PR (up) and SD (bottom) patients. Scale bar: 20 µm.
Article Snippet: ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient. (C) Baseline biomarkers correlated with response to treatment analyzed by NanoString IO 360.
Techniques: Diffusion-based Assay, Gene Expression, Immunofluorescence, Comparison, Staining