Global Cell Therapy Market Stem Cell Therapy Market Size Sales Growth Clinical Trials Insight 2027 US$ 40 Billion Opportunity
https://www.medgadget.com/2020/09/globa ... unity.html
The cell therapy market consists of sales of cell therapy and related services. Cell therapy (CT) helps repair or replace damaged tissues and cells. A variety of cells are used for the treatment of diseases includes skeletal muscle stem cells, hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells (HSC), lymphocytes, mesenchymal stem cells, pancreatic islet cells, and dendritic cells.
Therapeutic Solutions International Submits Publication on StemVacs™ Preclinical Data Supporting COVID-19 Indication
Global Cell Therapy Market Stem Cell Therapy Market Size Sales Growth Clinical Trials Insight 2027 US$ 40 Billion Opport
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Changes in Immunological Status in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treated With First-line Chemoimmunotherapy
Changes in Immunological Status in Patients
With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treated
With First-line Chemoimmunotherapy
With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treated
With First-line Chemoimmunotherapy
Identifying the Peptides that Activate T Cells in COVID-19 Patients - Albert Wong
Identifying the Peptides that Activate T Cells in COVID-19 Patients - Albert Wong
At what point should allo-SCT (or auto-allo-SCT) be considered for patients with MM?
University Hamburg Germany -
At what point should allo-SCT (or auto-allo-SCT) be considered for patients with MM?
At what point should allo-SCT (or auto-allo-SCT) be considered for patients with MM?
STEMVACS - A dendritic cell cancer vaccine
A dendritic cell cancer vaccine
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-020-00022-7
In 1909 Paul Ehrlich postulated that the immune system may defend the host against neoplastic cells and hinder the development of cancers. This concept has been widely recognized ever since, and eventually led to the development of novel cancer treatments in more recent years that revolutionized cancer care.
While the vast majority of cancer drugs target cancer cells directly, immunotherapies set off the body’s own immune response against tumours. A complex network of cells and soluble factors can thus be mobilized as preventive and therapeutic cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies that reactivate an immune response, or immune cell-based therapies.
A common feature of cancer vaccines is the presentation of tumour-specific antigens (generated for instance by somatic mutations or oncogenic viruses) to immune cells to elicit an immune response against these cancer epitopes. Arguably the greatest success of cancer vaccines has been the development of vaccines against ‘high-risk’ strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) for prevention of HPV-related cervical and other cancers (Milestone 14).
Dendritic cells, discovered in 1973 by the late Ralph Steinman, are the major antigen-presenting cells in the body, which, once activated, present antigens to CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and induce protective T cell responses. If a cancer-specific antigen is presented, this can result in an anti-tumour response. As T cell responses are indeed crucial for eliciting an immune response against cancers, dendritic cells have for a long time been suggested as potential cell-based vaccines. Crucial to the development of dendritic cells as vaccines, in the 1990s researchers developed the concept of loading, or ‘pulsing’, dendritic cells ex vivo with tumour-specific antigens.
The multi-centre phase III IMPACT trial reported in 2010, and two supporting phase III trials reported in 2006, showed a benefit to median survival, as well as induction of a T cell response, in patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer who were treated with the dendritic cell-based vaccine sipuleucel-T (trade name Provenge), even though the time to disease progression was not altered. On this basis, in 2010, sipuleucel-T became the first approved dendritic cell cancer vaccine, for the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer.
Sipuleucel-T is a personalized treatment. Dendritic cell precursors are extracted from each patient and pulsed with a fusion protein of prostate acid phosphatase (PAP; an antigen present on most prostate cancer cells) and the cytokine GM-CSF, which helps antigen-presenting cells to mature. The pulsed dendritic cells are then reinfused into the patient over several cycles.
Although sipuleucel-T has not been very widely adopted (and is no longer available in the European Union), it was recently announced that the combination of hormonal therapeutics with sipuleucel-T extended the survival of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Other clinical trials combining sipuleucel-T with radiation, hormonal, targeted or other immunotherapies are ongoing. So far sipuleucel-T remains the only vaccine-based immunotherapy approved for prostate cancer, and is also the only approved cell-based vaccine in the USA.
Overall clinical responses to dendritic cell vaccines have been disappointing, but with increasing knowledge, newer and more sophisticated strategies are being investigated to improve the efficacy of dendritic cell-based vaccines. Improved methods to generate more mature and ‘effective’ dendritic cells using ex vivo protocols, alternative combinations of antigens, optimized loading of dendritic cells and transfection of dendritic cells with RNA or DNA are among the strategies under investigation. The exploration of dendritic cell subsets and of other agents beyond GM-CSF that may mobilize dendritic cells in vivo, such as FLT3L, are also being pursued.
One important consideration is that tumour-associated immunosuppression can hamper the efficacy of the vaccines. In more recent years, T cell therapies — and in particular antibody-based immunotherapies that disarm inhibitory immune cell interactions (so called immune checkpoint inhibitors) — have proved very successful for some patients across a wide range of cancer types. Vaccines designed to boost these treatments are now in combination trials and may yield even more effective immunotherapies.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-020-00022-7
In 1909 Paul Ehrlich postulated that the immune system may defend the host against neoplastic cells and hinder the development of cancers. This concept has been widely recognized ever since, and eventually led to the development of novel cancer treatments in more recent years that revolutionized cancer care.
While the vast majority of cancer drugs target cancer cells directly, immunotherapies set off the body’s own immune response against tumours. A complex network of cells and soluble factors can thus be mobilized as preventive and therapeutic cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies that reactivate an immune response, or immune cell-based therapies.
A common feature of cancer vaccines is the presentation of tumour-specific antigens (generated for instance by somatic mutations or oncogenic viruses) to immune cells to elicit an immune response against these cancer epitopes. Arguably the greatest success of cancer vaccines has been the development of vaccines against ‘high-risk’ strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) for prevention of HPV-related cervical and other cancers (Milestone 14).
Dendritic cells, discovered in 1973 by the late Ralph Steinman, are the major antigen-presenting cells in the body, which, once activated, present antigens to CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and induce protective T cell responses. If a cancer-specific antigen is presented, this can result in an anti-tumour response. As T cell responses are indeed crucial for eliciting an immune response against cancers, dendritic cells have for a long time been suggested as potential cell-based vaccines. Crucial to the development of dendritic cells as vaccines, in the 1990s researchers developed the concept of loading, or ‘pulsing’, dendritic cells ex vivo with tumour-specific antigens.
The multi-centre phase III IMPACT trial reported in 2010, and two supporting phase III trials reported in 2006, showed a benefit to median survival, as well as induction of a T cell response, in patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer who were treated with the dendritic cell-based vaccine sipuleucel-T (trade name Provenge), even though the time to disease progression was not altered. On this basis, in 2010, sipuleucel-T became the first approved dendritic cell cancer vaccine, for the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer.
Sipuleucel-T is a personalized treatment. Dendritic cell precursors are extracted from each patient and pulsed with a fusion protein of prostate acid phosphatase (PAP; an antigen present on most prostate cancer cells) and the cytokine GM-CSF, which helps antigen-presenting cells to mature. The pulsed dendritic cells are then reinfused into the patient over several cycles.
Although sipuleucel-T has not been very widely adopted (and is no longer available in the European Union), it was recently announced that the combination of hormonal therapeutics with sipuleucel-T extended the survival of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Other clinical trials combining sipuleucel-T with radiation, hormonal, targeted or other immunotherapies are ongoing. So far sipuleucel-T remains the only vaccine-based immunotherapy approved for prostate cancer, and is also the only approved cell-based vaccine in the USA.
Overall clinical responses to dendritic cell vaccines have been disappointing, but with increasing knowledge, newer and more sophisticated strategies are being investigated to improve the efficacy of dendritic cell-based vaccines. Improved methods to generate more mature and ‘effective’ dendritic cells using ex vivo protocols, alternative combinations of antigens, optimized loading of dendritic cells and transfection of dendritic cells with RNA or DNA are among the strategies under investigation. The exploration of dendritic cell subsets and of other agents beyond GM-CSF that may mobilize dendritic cells in vivo, such as FLT3L, are also being pursued.
One important consideration is that tumour-associated immunosuppression can hamper the efficacy of the vaccines. In more recent years, T cell therapies — and in particular antibody-based immunotherapies that disarm inhibitory immune cell interactions (so called immune checkpoint inhibitors) — have proved very successful for some patients across a wide range of cancer types. Vaccines designed to boost these treatments are now in combination trials and may yield even more effective immunotherapies.
The FcγRIIa–Syk Axis Controls Human Dendritic Cell Activation and T Cell Response Induced by Infliximab Aggregates Myria
The FcγRIIa–Syk Axis Controls Human Dendritic Cell Activation and T Cell Response Induced by Infliximab Aggregates
Myriam Nabhan, François-Xavier Legrand, Victor Le-Minh, Baptiste Robin, Rami Bechara, Nicolas Huang, Claire Smadja, Marc Pallardy, Isabelle Turbica and on behalf of the ABIRISK Consortium
J Immunol September 28, 2020, ji1901381; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1901381
Myriam Nabhan, François-Xavier Legrand, Victor Le-Minh, Baptiste Robin, Rami Bechara, Nicolas Huang, Claire Smadja, Marc Pallardy, Isabelle Turbica and on behalf of the ABIRISK Consortium
J Immunol September 28, 2020, ji1901381; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1901381
Dendritic Cell-based Immunotherapy Pulsed With Wilms Tumor 1 Peptide and Mucin 1 as an Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic D
Dendritic Cell-based Immunotherapy Pulsed With Wilms Tumor 1 Peptide and Mucin 1 as an Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma After Curative Resection: A Phase I/IIa Clinical Trial
http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/40/1 ... gures-only
http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/40/1 ... gures-only
Proteomic analyses reveal that Orf virus induces the activation and maturation of mouse bone marrow-derived dendritic ce
Proteomic analyses reveal that Orf virus induces the activation and maturation of mouse bone marrow-derived dendritic cells
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 8819306332
Highlights
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ORFV is known for its immunostimulatory capacities and has been utilized as an efficient viral vector vaccine in non-permissive host species.
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ORFV activates DC maturation and phagocytosis function.
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Our data therefore provide immune activation insights into the infection of ORFV.
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This research will be valuable for elucidating the mechanisms underlying ORFV-induced immunomodulation of murine BMDCs.
Abstract
Orf virus (ORFV) is known for its immunostimulatory capacities and has been utilized as an efficient viral vector vaccine in non-permissive host species. Murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) are able to react with ORFV. In this study, we aimed to identify pivotal differentially expressed proteins involved in the process of DCs' differentiation in response to ORFV. Our findings showed that ORFV activates the maturation and differentiation of DCs. We further identified and validated seven differentially expressed proteins following ORFV stimulation. With functions in biological processes such as stimulus response, DCs maturation, antigen presentation and Th1 cell activation. Western blot analyses validated the respective changes in protein expression. The huge number of differentially expressed proteins identified in this study will be valuable for elucidating the mechanisms underlying ORFV-induced immunomodulation of murine BMDCs.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 8819306332
Highlights
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ORFV is known for its immunostimulatory capacities and has been utilized as an efficient viral vector vaccine in non-permissive host species.
•
ORFV activates DC maturation and phagocytosis function.
•
Our data therefore provide immune activation insights into the infection of ORFV.
•
This research will be valuable for elucidating the mechanisms underlying ORFV-induced immunomodulation of murine BMDCs.
Abstract
Orf virus (ORFV) is known for its immunostimulatory capacities and has been utilized as an efficient viral vector vaccine in non-permissive host species. Murine bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) are able to react with ORFV. In this study, we aimed to identify pivotal differentially expressed proteins involved in the process of DCs' differentiation in response to ORFV. Our findings showed that ORFV activates the maturation and differentiation of DCs. We further identified and validated seven differentially expressed proteins following ORFV stimulation. With functions in biological processes such as stimulus response, DCs maturation, antigen presentation and Th1 cell activation. Western blot analyses validated the respective changes in protein expression. The huge number of differentially expressed proteins identified in this study will be valuable for elucidating the mechanisms underlying ORFV-induced immunomodulation of murine BMDCs.
Epigallocatechin‑3‑gallate inhibits self‑renewal ability of lung cancer stem‑like cells through inhibition of CLOCK
Epigallocatechin‑3‑gallate inhibits self‑renewal ability of lung cancer stem‑like cells through inhibition of CLOCK
https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ ... .2020.4758
https://www.spandidos-publications.com/ ... .2020.4758
Extracellular Release of Antigen by Dendritic Cell Regurgitation Promotes B Cell Activation through NF-κB/cRel
Extracellular Release of Antigen by Dendritic Cell Regurgitation Promotes B Cell Activation through NF-κB/cRel
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/ ... ol.1900394
KEY POINTS
Dendritic cells transfer Ags to and activate B cells in vivo.
Ags released from dendritic cells by regurgitation promote B cell activation.
Early B cell activation by dendritic cell regurgitation requires NF-κB/cRel.
Abstract
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional APCs, which sample Ags in the periphery and migrate to the lymph node where they activate T cells. DCs can also present native Ag to B cells through interactions observed both in vitro and in vivo. However, the mechanisms of Ag transfer and B cell activation by DCs remain incompletely understood. In this study, we report that murine DCs are an important cell transporter of Ag from the periphery to the lymph node B cell zone and also potent inducers of B cell activation both in vivo and in vitro. Importantly, we highlight a novel extracellular mechanism of B cell activation by DCs. In this study, we demonstrate that Ag released upon DC regurgitation is sufficient to efficiently induce early B cell activation, which is BCR driven and mechanistically dependent on the nuclear accumulation of the transcription factor NF-κB/cRel. Thus, our study provides new mechanistic insights into Ag delivery and B cell activation modalities by DCs and a promising approach for targeting NF-κB/cRel pathway to modulate the DC-elicited B cell responses.
Are dendritic cells the most appropriate therapeutic vaccine for patients with ovarian cancer?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 6920300409
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/early/ ... ol.1900394
KEY POINTS
Dendritic cells transfer Ags to and activate B cells in vivo.
Ags released from dendritic cells by regurgitation promote B cell activation.
Early B cell activation by dendritic cell regurgitation requires NF-κB/cRel.
Abstract
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional APCs, which sample Ags in the periphery and migrate to the lymph node where they activate T cells. DCs can also present native Ag to B cells through interactions observed both in vitro and in vivo. However, the mechanisms of Ag transfer and B cell activation by DCs remain incompletely understood. In this study, we report that murine DCs are an important cell transporter of Ag from the periphery to the lymph node B cell zone and also potent inducers of B cell activation both in vivo and in vitro. Importantly, we highlight a novel extracellular mechanism of B cell activation by DCs. In this study, we demonstrate that Ag released upon DC regurgitation is sufficient to efficiently induce early B cell activation, which is BCR driven and mechanistically dependent on the nuclear accumulation of the transcription factor NF-κB/cRel. Thus, our study provides new mechanistic insights into Ag delivery and B cell activation modalities by DCs and a promising approach for targeting NF-κB/cRel pathway to modulate the DC-elicited B cell responses.
Are dendritic cells the most appropriate therapeutic vaccine for patients with ovarian cancer?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 6920300409