Expression of IL-34 correlates with macrophage infiltration and prognosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Osamu NoyoriYoshihiro KomoharaHesham NasserMasateru HiyoshiChaoya MaCheng PanJoaquim CarrerasNaoya NakamuraAi SatoKiyoshi AndoYutaka OkunoKisato NosakaMasao MatsuokaShinya SuzuPublished in: Clinical & translational immunology (2019)
Our results raise the possibility that IL-34 in lymphoma tissues of DLBCL patients recruits monocytes, leading to the higher number of macrophages in the tissues and poor prognosis of patients. IL-34 may be an additional therapeutic target of DLBCL.