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ArticleJournal of translational medicine2011

Combination immunotherapy and active-specific tumor cell vaccination augments anti-cancer immunity in a mouse model of gastric cancer.

Natasja K van den Engel, Dominik Rüttinger, Margareta Rusan, Robert Kammerer, Wolfgang Zimmermann, Rudolf A Hatz, Hauke Winter

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Article in Journal of translational medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Natasja K van den EngelDepartment of Surgery, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. natasja.vandenengel@med.uni-muenchen.de
Dominik Rüttinger
Margareta Rusan
Robert Kammerer
Wolfgang Zimmermann
Rudolf A Hatz
Hauke Winter
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEFriedrich-Loeffler-Institut · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundActive-specific immunotherapy used as an adjuvant therapeutic strategy is rather unexplored for cancers with poorly characterized tumor antigens like gastric cancer. The aim of this study was to augment a therapeutic immune response to a low immunogenic tumor cell line derived from a spontaneous gastric tumor of a CEA424-SV40 large T antigen (CEA424-SV40 TAg) transgenic mouse.

methodsMice were treated with a lymphodepleting dose of cyclophosphamide prior to reconstitution with syngeneic spleen cells and vaccination with a whole tumor cell vaccine combined with GM-CSF (a treatment strategy abbreviated as LRAST). Anti-tumor activity to subcutaneous tumor challenge was examined in a prophylactic as well as a therapeutic setting and compared to corresponding controls.

resultsLRAST enhances tumor-specific T cell responses and efficiently inhibits growth of subsequent transplanted tumor cells. In addition, LRAST tended to slow down growth of established tumors. The improved anti-tumor immune response was accompanied by a transient decrease in the frequency and absolute number of CD4⁺CD25⁺FoxP3⁺ T cells (Tregs).

conclusionsOur data support the concept that whole tumor cell vaccination in a lymphodepleted and reconstituted host in combination with GM-CSF induces therapeutic tumor-specific T cells. However, the long-term efficacy of the treatment may be dampened by the recurrence of Tregs. Strategies to counteract suppressive immune mechanisms are required to further evaluate this therapeutic vaccination protocol.

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ImmunotherapyVaccinationAnimalsCancer VaccinesCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCombined Modality TherapyCytotoxicity, ImmunologicDisease Models, AnimalFreund's AdjuvantGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorImmunityInjections, SubcutaneousInterferon-gammaLymph NodesMiceCancer VaccinesFreund's AdjuvantGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorInterferon-gamma

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PMCPMC3169470
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