Immunotherapeutic strategies targeting natural killer T cell responses in cancer

Immunogenetics

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 623-638

  Shissler, Susannah C ^a   Bollino, Dominique R ^a   Tiper, Irina V ^a   Bates, Joshua P ^a   Derakhshandeh, Roshanak ^a   Webb, Tonya J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer immunotherapy; CD1d; NKT cells; Galactosylceramide

Indexed keywords

BISPECIFIC ANTIBODY; CANCER VACCINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR5; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR CELL VACCINE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TARGET CELL; TUMOR ESCAPE; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 84978052649     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-016-0928-8     Document Type: Article

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