PDT de ambas as linhagens exibiram superexpressão de CD44 high /ESA high . A linhagem SCC9 exibiu ainda maior frequência de células CD44 high /ESA low e CD44 high /p75 NTR+ , sugerindo a presença de uma subpopulação com alto potencial de invasão e resistente aos tratamentos convencionais. Não houve diferenças significativas na frequência de células ESA high /p75 NTR + em ambas as linhagens.Concluiu-se que as células displásicas orais desenvolvem resistência à PDT com intensidade menor se comparada às células SCC9. Em ambas as linhagens, as células resistentes exibiram um fenótipo sugestivo de células tronco tumorais. Esse fato deve ser considerado ao se instituir a PDT mediada pelo 5-ALA em lesões displásicas e neoplásicas orais que demandam múltiplos ciclos de tratamento.
Palavras-chave: Terapia fotodinâmica. Ácido 5-aminolevulínico. Lesões potencialmente malignas orais. Carcinoma epidermóide oral. Resistência tumoral. ABSTRACT Buck MGT. Analysis of the tumor stem cell phenotype in oral dysplastic epithelial cells and oral squamous cell carcinoma resistant to photodynamic therapy [thesis]. São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Odontologia; 2018. Versão Corrigida.Oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) has a high incidence and mortality in the world.There are frequent cases of relapses due to its resistance to conventional treatments.This resistance has been associated with the presence of cancer stem cells (CSC).Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been used in cases of potentially malignant oral lesions (PMOL) and superficial SCC's, with a relative success rate. However, relapses are reported, which suggest some resistance to PDT. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether PMOL cells develop resistance to PDT mediated by the 5aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA), as occurs with SCC cells exposed to the same treatment, as well as to verify if dysplastic and oral neoplastic cells exhibit a suggestive phenotype of CSC. Oral dysplastic epithelial cells (DOK lineage) and CSC cells of the tongue (SCC9 lineage) were divided into the following experimental groups: Control Groupcells with no treatment; Group ALA -5-ALA treated cells, with concentration and incubation time equal to that of the PDT group; LED group -LED light treated cells, with dosimetry equal to that of the PDT group; PDT group -cells treated with PDT mediated by the 5-ALA, subdivided into two generations: Generation 1 -cells exposed to only one PDT cycle; Generation 4 -cells exposed to four PDT cycles and exhibiting resistance (greater viability) to the initial dose applied for Generation 1. Colony forming and invasion assays, as well as flow cytometry to verify the expression of CD44, ESA and p75 NTR were performed to the experimental groups. It was observed that all groups exposed to PDT containing DOK lineage cells exhibited resistance to the initial dose of PDT, but at a lower intensity than those observed for the SCC9 lineage. PDTresistant cells from both lineages exhibited increased potential for colony formation, but only the first generation...