Abstract
Schistosomiasis parasitic infection (Schistosoma haematobium) is associated in some patients with bladder cancer. The production of cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) is a key event of inflammation in human infectious disease and malignancy. TNFα has not been previously investigated from schistosomiasis infection and bladder malignancy. In this report we demonstrate that serum levels of TNFα are highly elevated in patients with schistosomiasis of urinary bladder (SB), schistosomiasis with carcinoma of urinary bladder (SCB), and carcinoma of urinary bladder without schistosomiasis (CB). Purified monocytes from bladder malignancy (SCB and CB) cultured without exogeneous stimuli release TNFα in the culture supernatants. However, lipopolysaccharides and concanavalin A stimulation of monocytes from these patients produced highly elevated levels of TNFα compared with normal controls. The findings that monocytes are the potent producers of TNFα in this malignancy may be a key observation implicating these cells in the pathophysiology of this disease. Furthermore, it was shown that serum TNFα levels correlated with the clinical staging of disease in both SCB and CB, with higher levels in T3 and T4 advanced-stage patients and low levels in T1 and T2 early-stage patients. These results suggest that monocyte abnormality and serum TNFα levels might be one of the factors contributing to the progression of disease.
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Raziuddin, S., Masihuzzaman, M., Shetty, S. et al. Tumor necrosis factor alpha production in schistosomiasis with carcinoma of urinary bladder. J Clin Immunol 13, 23–29 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00920632
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