Interleukin 12: Still a promising candidate for tumor immunotherapy?

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 419-435

  Lasek, Witold ^a   Zagożdżon, Radosław ^a   Jakobisiak, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cancer immunotherapy; Cytokine; Gene therapy; Interleukin 12

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; CANCER ANTIBODY; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; MITOMYCIN; MITOXANTRONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PACLITAXEL; PEPTIDE VACCINE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 12; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 18; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2; RECOMBINANT TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; RETINOIC ACID; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR VACCINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLON CARCINOMA; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE THERAPY; GLIOMA; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEWIS CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MACROPHAGE; MELANOMA; MONOCYTE; MONOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPHIL; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; CANCER VACCINES; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERLEUKIN-12; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84899950432     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: 14320851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-014-1523-1     Document Type: Review

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