通过光学和电子显微镜研究了低分化管状胃腺癌伴肿瘤相关组织嗜酸性粒细胞增多症(TATE)的病例,关注嗜酸性粒细胞和肿瘤细胞之间的膜相互作用。29.2%与肿瘤细胞接触的嗜酸性粒细胞显示完整颗粒,28.3%表现为零碎脱粒(PMD),40%的特征是在相同的粒细胞中共存PMD和复合胞吐作用,而在2.5%的PMD嗜酸性粒细胞中发现了经典的胞吐作用。嗜酸粒细胞初乳囊泡(EoSVs),重要的肾小管泡状载体,用于在PMD期间从特定颗粒中递送细胞毒性蛋白,还在超微结构水平进行了研究。在激活的嗜酸性粒细胞中,EoSVs和具有脱颗粒超微结构迹象的特定颗粒向肿瘤细胞极化。凋亡样细胞死亡的超微结构变化,比如线粒体肿胀,核包络的膨胀,细胞质液泡,和核染色质凝聚,但是没有染色质的边缘,在这些肿瘤细胞中观察到。我们的数据支持嗜酸性粒细胞可能在胃癌中发挥抗肿瘤作用的观点。最后,报告的病例提供,第一次,人腺癌肿瘤基质中嗜酸性粒细胞经典和复合胞吐的超微结构证据。
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case of poorly differentiated tubular gastric adenocarcinoma with tumor-associated tissue eosinophilia (TATE) is studied by light and electron microscopy, focusing on membrane interactions between eosinophils and tumor cells. 29.2% of the eosinophils in contact with tumor cells showed intact granules, 28.3% exhibited piecemeal degranulation (PMD), 40% were characterized by coexistence of PMD and compound exocytosis in the same granulocyte, whereas classical exocytosis was found in 2.5% of the eosinophils with PMD. Eosinophil Sombrero Vesicles (EoSVs), important tubulovesicular carriers for delivery of cytotoxic proteins from the specific granules during PMD, were also studied at the ultrastructural level. In activated eosinophils, EoSVs and specific granules with ultrastructural signs of degranulation were polarized toward tumor cells. Ultrastructural changes in paraptosis-like cell death, such as mitochondrial swelling, dilation of the nuclear envelope, cytoplasmic vacuoles, and nuclear chromatin condensation, but without margination of the chromatin, were observed in these tumor cells. Our data support the notion that eosinophils may exert an antitumoral role in gastric cancer. Finally, the
case reported provides, for the first time, ultrastructural evidence of classical and compound exocytosis of eosinophils in the tumor stroma of human adenocarcinoma.