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ReviewBioMed research international2015

"Adherent" versus Other Isolation Strategies for Expanding Purified, Potent, and Activated Human NK Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy.

Senthamil R Selvan, John P Dowling

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Review in BioMed research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Senthamil R SelvanDivision of Solid Tumor, Department of Medical Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Curtis Building, Suite 1024B, 1015 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
John P DowlingImmunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural killer (NK) cells have long been hypothesized to play a central role in the development of new immunotherapies to combat a variety of cancers due to their intrinsic ability to lyse tumor cells. For the past several decades, various isolation and expansion methods have been developed to harness the full antitumor potential of NK cells. These protocols have varied greatly between laboratories and several have been optimized for large-scale clinical use despite associated complexity and high cost. Here, we present a simple method of "adherent" enrichment and expansion of NK cells, developed using both healthy donors' and cancer patients' peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), and compare its effectiveness with various published protocols to highlight the pros and cons of their use in adoptive cell therapy. By building upon the concepts and data presented, future research can be adapted to provide simple, cost-effective, reproducible, and translatable procedures for personalized treatment with NK cells.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyHumansKiller Cells, NaturalLeukocytes, MononuclearNeoplasmsPrecision Medicine

Identifiers

PMID26161419
PMCPMC4486741

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