Lloyd Old, Thierry Boon, and colleagues develop the TNF release assay for mouse systems in which release of TNF by T cells could be used to assess specific T cell recognition, facilitating the cloning of
human tumor antigens.
Not exact matches
Dr. Gnjatic's research focuses on
human antigen - specific immune responses to
tumor antigens, in an attempt to define new targets for the development of cancer immunotherapies, assess the efficacy of these immunotherapies, and learn why they may fail.
Over the past two years, investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results from a
human trial in GBM using chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, through which patients» own T cells were engineered to track down and kill cancer cells that express a
tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.
Pramod Srivastava and Lloyd J. Old identify the
human homologue of the mouse
tumor rejection
antigen gp96.
Cloning of the gene coding for a shared
human melanoma
antigen recognized by autologous T cells infiltrating into
tumor.
Pierre Coulie and Thierry Boon, [i] and Thomas Wölfel [ii] show that
human T lymphocytes recognize
antigens caused by driver278 or passenger279
tumor - specific mutations.
Antonio Lanzavecchia finds that efficient presentation of soluble
antigen by cultured
human dendritic cells is maintained by granulocyte / macrophage colony - stimulating factor plus interleukin 4 and downregulated by
tumor necrosis factor alpha.
mesothelin - specific chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR) were capable of ablating large
human mesothelioma
tumors when infused into mice.
Recently she characterized anti-
tumor effects of a unique
human CD4 + helper T - cell subset that directly recognizes the cytoplasmic
tumor antigen, NY - ESO - 1, presented by MHC class II on cancer cells.
Revealed that the loss of the
human leukocyte
antigen (HLA) locus in lung cancers is a way these
tumors evade the immune system and allow mutation expansion and branched evolution within
tumor cells
Analysis of the
human cancer glycome identifies a novel group of
tumor - associated N - acetylglucosamine glycan
antigens.
These results suggest that
tumor antigen loaded CD40 - B may serve as a practical alternative to DC in cell - based vaccine strategies for both dogs and
humans with cancer.