Other CAR T - cell therapies approved in 2017 include tisagenlecleucel for the treatment of children and young adults up to 25 years of age with relapsed or refractory B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia and axicabtagene ciloleucil (aci - cel; Yescarta) for adults with relapsed or refractory DLBCL.
The genetic basis of early T -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia Nature, 481 (7380), 157 - 163 DOI: 10.1038 / nature10725
In 2014, the FDA approved Amgen's BLINCYTO ® (blinatumumab), the first BiTE ® therapy to receive FDA approval, for the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome - negative relapsed or refractory B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare and rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
The drug, which was first approved last August for patients under 25 with B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is now OK» ed to treat large B - cell lymphoma.
In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B -
cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percent.
Not exact matches
In PLAT - 02, the CAR T
cells are reprogrammed to recognize and target the CD19 protein that is expressed by most
precursor B
acute lymphoblastic leukemia
cells.
Effects of the chemokine stromal
cell - derived factor - 1 on the migration and localization of
precursor - B
acute lymphoblastic leukemia
cells within bone marrow stromal layers.
Consistent with prior reports on effector
cells (35), we observed that, among CD8 + T
cells specific for the dominant epitope of LCMV (GP33), the percentages of short - lived effector
cells (KLRG1 + CD127 −) were increased, and the percentages of memory
precursor cells (KLRG1 + CD127 +) were decreased in the peripheral blood of DGKζ − / −, Cbl - b − / −, and DKO mice relative to WT mice after
acute infection (Fig. 5A).
A phase I / II trial of KTE - C19 (anti-CD19 CAR T
cells) for pediatric and adolescent subjects with relapsed / refractory B -
precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia -LRB-
CpG stimulation of
precursor B lineage
acute lymphoblastic leukemia induces a distinct change in costimulatory molecule expression and shifts allogeneic T
cells towards a Th1 response.
IL - 6 has been shown to be involved in diverse physiological processes such as T -
cell activation, induction of immunoglobulin secretion, initiation of hepatic
acute phase protein synthesis, and stimulation of hematopoietic
precursor cell proliferation and differentiation.