Experimental and applied immunotherapy
By: Jeffrey Medin, Daniel Fowler, editors
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781607619796; 9781607619802
Subjects: Immunology; Methods; Cancer; Neoplasms; Immunological aspects; Immunotherapy; T-Lymphocytes; Therapy; Cancer Vaccines; Therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: T cell therapy: state-of-the-art; title: Extending the use of adoptive T cell immunotherapy for infections and cancer; title: Non-T cell therapeutic approaches; title: B lymphocytes in cancer immunology; title: Monoclonal antibody therapy for cancer; title: Natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy; title: Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines: practical considerations; title: Mesenchymal stromal cells: an emerging cell-based pharmaceutical; title: T cell therapeutic approaches; title: Tumor-specific mutations as targets for cancer immunotherapy; title: Counteracting subversion of MHC class II antigen presentation by tumors; title: Mechanisms and implications of immunodominance in CD8⁺ T-cell responses; title: T regulatory cells and cancer immunotherapy; title: Negative regulators in cancer immunology and immunotherapy; title: Genetically engineered antigen specificity in T cells for adoptive immunotherapy; title: Non-cellular aspects of cancer immunotherapy; title: Cytokine immunotherapy; title: Transcriptional modulation using histone deacetylase inhibitors for cancer immunotherapy; title: Combining cancer vaccines with conventional therapies; title: Combining oncolytic viruses with cancer immunotherapy; title: Radiation therapy and cancer treatment: from the basics to combination therapies that ignite immunity; title: Assessing immunotherapy through cellular and molecular imaging; title: Transplantation; title: Allogeneic and autologous transplantation therapy of cancer: converging themes.