Immunosenescence: limitations of natural killer cell-based cancer immunotherapy

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 233-245

  Tarazona, Raquel ^a   Sanchez Correa, Beatriz ^a   Casas Avilés, Ignacio ^b   Campos, Carmen ^c   Pera, Alejandra ^c,e   Morgado, Sara ^a   López Sejas, Nelson ^c   Hassouneh, Fakhri ^c   Bergua, Juan M ^b   Arcos, Maria Jose ^b   Bañas, Helena ^b   Casado, Javier G ^a,d   Durán, Esther ^a   Labella, Fernando ^c   Solana, Rafael ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO DE ALCÁNTARA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^d JESÚS USÓN MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY CENTRE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^f Universidad de Cordoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cancer immunotherapy; Checkpoint blockade; NK cell immunosenescence; PIVAC 15

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MICRORNA; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR;

AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; AGING; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIGANDS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84982112296     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: 14320851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-016-1882-x     Document Type: Review

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