Immunotherapy With Leukemia-cell-derived Heat Shock Protein 70 Triggers Induction Of Leukemia-specific Antibodies
Main Category: Cancer / OncologyAlso Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials
Article Date: 24 Jul 2008 - 1:00 PDT
Even after chemotherapies and stem cell transplants, relapses still occur in leukemia patients. This study established a mouse model after bone marrow transplant and found that the immunization of mice with leukemia-cell-derived heat shock protein 70 (HSP) induced leukemia-specific immunities and prolonged their survival.
The tumor-derived-HSP binds the tumor-specific antigenic peptides, making it an effective cancer vaccination. It has reported that patients with peptide-specific antibodies survived longer than those without.
Using leukemia-specific antibodies induced by HSP-based vaccination would be useful for the prognosis of leukemia and facilitate the establishment of novel therapeutic strategies in the future.
"Induction of leukemia-specific anti-bodies by immunotherapy with leukemia-cell-derived heat shock protein 70"
Junko Jimbo, Kazuya Sato, Takaaki Hosoki, Motohiro Shindo, Katsuya Ikuta, Yoshihiro Torimoto, Yutaka Kohgo
Cancer Science - Volume 99 Issue 7, Pages 1427 - 1434
10.1111/j.1349-7006.2008.00829.x
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Cancer Science (formerly Japanese Journal of Cancer Research) aims to present research that has a significant clinical impact on oncologists or that may alter the disease concept of a tumor. The Journal publishes original articles and editorials, letters to the editor, review articles and reports describing original research in the fields of basic, translational and clinical cancer.
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-- carcinogenesis
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