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Published online before print October 4, 2005
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*Department of Oncological & Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy;
Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and
Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland
@ To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mocellins{at}hotmail.com.
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Although interleukin-10 (IL-10) is commonly regarded as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive cytokine that favors tumor escape from immune surveillance, a wealth of evidence is accumulating that IL-10 also possesses some immunostimulating properties. In fact, IL-10 has the pleiotropic ability of influencing positively and negatively the function of innate and adaptive immunity in different experimental models, which makes it questionable to merely categorize this cytokine as a target of anti-immune escape therapeutic strategies or rather, as an immunological adjuvant in the fight against cancer. Here, we review available data about the immunostimulating anticancer properties of IL-10, and in particular, we focus on the hypothesis that in contrast to what occurs in secondary lymphoid organs, IL-10 overexpression within the tumor microenvironment may catalyze cancer immune rejection.
Key Words: tumor-infiltrating macrophages natural killer cell tumor-associated antigen
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