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ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2016

Dendritic cell vaccines: A review of recent developments and their potential pediatric application.

Jennifer D Elster, Deepa K Krishnadas, Kenneth G Lucas

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Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Autologous tumor lysate-loaded dendritic cell vaccination in glioblastoma patients: a systematic review of literature.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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  7. Targets and Antibody Formats for Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2020
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  8. Immunotherapy in anaplastic thyroid cancer.American journal of translational research · 2020
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  9. Immunotherapeutic Challenges for Pediatric Cancers.Molecular therapy oncolytics · 2019
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  11. Are Regulatory Age Limits in Pediatric Melanoma Justified?Current therapeutic research, clinical and experimental · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jennifer D Elstera Department of Pediatrics , Hematology/Oncology, University of Louisville , Louisville , KY , USA.
Deepa K Krishnadasa Department of Pediatrics , Hematology/Oncology, University of Louisville , Louisville , KY , USA.
Kenneth G Lucasa Department of Pediatrics , Hematology/Oncology, University of Louisville , Louisville , KY , USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many cancers the use of conventional chemotherapy has been maximized, and further intensification of chemotherapy generally results in excess toxicity with little long-term benefit for cure. Many tumors become resistant to chemotherapy, making the investigation of novel approaches such as immunotherapy of interest. Because the tumor microenvironment is known to promote immune tolerance and down regulate the body's natural defense mechanisms, modulating the immune system with the use of dendritic cell (DC) therapy is an attractive approach. Thousands of patients with diverse tumor types have been treated with DC vaccines. While antigen specific immune responses have been reported, the duration and magnitude of these responses are typically weak, and objective clinical responses have been limited. DC vaccine generation and administration is a multi-step process with opportunities for improvement in source of DC for vaccine, selection of target antigen, and boosting effector cell response via administration of vaccine adjuvant or concomitant pharmacologic immunomodulation. In this review we will discuss recent developments in each of these areas and highlight elements that could be moved into pediatric clinical trials.

Indexed as

Cancer VaccinesCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyChildDendritic CellsHumansNeoplasmsCancer Vaccinescancer immunotherapydendritic celldendritic cell vaccinevaccine adjuvant

Identifiers

PMID27245943
PMCPMC5027720

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