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ArticleTransfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie2019

B Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapy.

Kerstin Wennhold, Alexander Shimabukuro-Vornhagen, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon

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Article in Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
6.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kerstin WennholdCenter for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Alexander Shimabukuro-VornhagenDepartment I for Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Michael von Bergwelt-BaildonCenter for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
LMU Klinikum · DEUniversity Hospital Cologne · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

B cells are not only producers of antibodies, but also contribute to immune regulation or act as potent antigen-presenting cells. The potential of B cells for cellular therapy is still largely underestimated, despite their multiple diverse effector functions. The CD40L/CD40 signaling pathway is the most potent activator of antigen presentation capacity in B lymphocytes. CD40-activated B cells are potent antigen-presenting cells that induce specific T-cell responses in vitro and in vivo. In preclinical cancer models in mice and dogs, CD40-activated B cell-based cancer immunotherapy was able to induce effective antitumor immunity. So far, there have been only few early-stage clinical studies involving B cell-based cancer vaccines. These trials indicate that B cell-based immunotherapy is generally safe and associated with little toxicity. Furthermore, these studies suggest that B-cell immunotherapy can elicit antitumor T-cell responses. Alongside the recent advances in cellular therapies in general, major obstacles for generation of good manufacturing practice-manufactured B-cell immunotherapies have been overcome. Thus, a first clinical trial involving CD40-activated B cells might be in reach.

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Antigen presentationB-cell therapyCellular therapy

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PMID31244580
PMCPMC6558332
OpenAlexW2778441553

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