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ArticlePloS one2008

Increased seroreactivity to glioma-expressed antigen 2 in brain tumor patients under radiation.

Sabrina M Heisel, Ralf Ketter, Andreas Keller, Veronika Klein, Christian P Pallasch, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Eckart Meese

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Article in PloS one, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sabrina M HeiselDepartment of Human Genetics, Saarland University Medical School, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Ralf Ketter
Andreas Keller
Veronika Klein
Christian P Pallasch
Hans-Peter Lenhof
Eckart Meese
Saarland University · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSurgery and radiation are the mainstays of therapy for human gliomas that are the most common primary brain tumors. Most recently, cell culture and animal studies provided the first convincing evidence that radiation not only eliminates tumor cells, but also modulates the immune response and likely improves anti-tumor immunotherapy. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL

findingsWe present an in vivo study that analyzes the effects of radiation on the immune response in tumor patients. As readout system, we utilized the reactivity of glioma patients' sera against antigen GLEA2 as the most frequent antigen immunogenic in glioblastoma patients. We established an ELISA assay to analyze reactivity of 24 glioblastoma patients over a period of several months. As control we used 30 sera from healthy donors as well as 30 sera from lung cancer patients. We compared the course of GLEA2 seroreactivity at different times prior, during and after radiation. The GLEA2 seroreactivity was increased by the time of surgery, decreased after surgery, increased again under radiation, and slightly decreased after radiation. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Our results provide in vivo evidence for an increased antibody response against tumor antigens under radiation. Antigens that become immunogenic with an increased antibody response as result of radiation can serve as ideal targets for immunotherapy of human tumors.

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PMID18478111
PMCPMC2366063
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