Journal: Cancers
Article Title: Determination of Interactive States of Immune Checkpoint Regulators in Lung Metastases after Radiofrequency Ablation
doi: 10.3390/cancers14235738
Figure Lengend Snippet: Checkpoint interaction does not correlate with ligand expression in pre- or post-RFA-treated lung metastases. The expression of each checkpoint ligand (CD80 or PD-L1) does not correlate with checkpoint interaction. ( A ) In lung metastases from lung 1, prior to RFA treatment, median CTLA-4/CD80 interaction states did not correlate with CD80 expression (r s = −0.134, p = 0.632). ( B ) From the same lung, pre-RFA, PD-1/PD-L1 interaction states did not correlate with PD-L1 expression (r s = −0.171, p = 0.541). ( C ) In patient samples taken from lung 2, post-RFA treatment of lung 1, checkpoint ligand expression failed to correlate with median CTLA-4/CD80 interaction (r s = 0.234, p = 0.439). ( D ) PD-1/PD-L1 interaction states failed to correlate with PD-L1 expression (r s = −0.265, p = 0.378, respectively).
Article Snippet: Monoclonal antibodies mouse anti-PD-1, rabbit anti-PD-L1, and mouse anti-CTLA-4 were purchased from Abcam (catalogue numbers ab52587, ab205921, and ab19792, respectively).
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