Synthetic immune niches for cancer immunotherapy

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 212-219

  Weiden, Jorieke ^a   Tel, Jurjen ^b   Figdor, Carl G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; CPG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; DENDRITIC CELL VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; MACROGOL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYGLACTIN;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL THERAPY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR IMMUNITY; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

CANCER VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 85042616497     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2017.89     Document Type: Review

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