NY-ESO-1-specific TCR-engineered T cells mediate sustained antigen-specific antitumor effects in myeloma

Nature Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 914-921

  Rapoport, Aaron P ^a   Stadtmauer, Edward A ^b   Binder Scholl, Gwendolyn K ^c   Goloubeva, Olga ^a   Vogl, Dan T ^d   Lacey, Simon F ^e   Badros, Ashraf Z ^f   Garfall, Alfred ^e   Weiss, Brendan ^d   Finklestein, Jeffrey ^a   Kulikovskaya, Irina ^a   Sinha, Sanjoy K ^b   Kronsberg, Shari ^c   Gupta, Minnal ^a   Bond, Sarah ^d   Melchiori, Luca ^a   Brewer, Joanna E ^a   Bennett, Alan D ^a   Gerry, Andrew B ^a   Pumphrey, Nicholas J ^b   Williams, Daniel ^a   Tayton Martin, Helen K ^b   Ribeiro, Lilliam ^c   Holdich, Tom ^a   Yanovich, Saul ^d   Hardy, Nancy ^e   Yared, Jean ^f   Kerr, Naseem ^a   Philip, Sunita ^b   Westphal, Sandra ^c   Siegel, Don L ^c   Levine, Bruce L ^b   Jakobsen, Bent K ^c   Kalos, Michael ^a,b   June, Carl H ^b,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Adaptimmune Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Cambridge Biomedical   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; LAGE 1 ANTIGEN; NY ESO 1 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CTAG1B PROTEIN, HUMAN; CTAG2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SDC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SYNDECAN 1;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CELL ENGINEERING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE SYNDROME; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFER; MALE; MYELOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SYNDECAN-1; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84938963928     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3910     Document Type: Article

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