Immunotoxins for targeted cancer therapy

RJ Kreitman - The AAPS journal, 2006 - Springer
Immunotoxins are proteins that contain a toxin along with an antibody or growth factor that
binds specifically to target cells. Nearly all protein toxins work by enzymatically inhibiting …

Trial Watch: Chemotherapy with immunogenic cell death inducers

E Vacchelli, F Aranda, A Eggermont, J Galon… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Accumulating evidence suggests that the clinical efficacy of selected anticancer drugs,
including conventional chemotherapeutics as well as targeted anticancer agents, originates …

Trial Watch: Immunostimulatory monoclonal antibodies in cancer therapy

F Aranda, E Vacchelli, A Eggermont, J Galon… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Immunostimulatory monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) exert antineoplastic effects by eliciting a
novel or reinstating a pre-existing antitumor immune response. Most often …

Preclinical studies of a nonpeptidic small-molecule inhibitor of Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL [(−)-gossypol] against diffuse large cell lymphoma

RM Mohammad, S Wang, A Aboukameel, B Chen… - Molecular cancer …, 2005 - AACR
Abstract Overexpression of Bcl-2/Bcl-XL protein has been observed in more than 80% of B-
cell lymphomas. Diffuse large cell lymphoma (DLCL) is the most common subtype of non …

Cancer immunotherapy: breaking the barriers to harvest the crop

D Pardoll, J Allison - Nature medicine, 2004 - nature.com
Successful translation of modern molecular immunology into effective cancer
immunotherapy is threatened by regulatory barriers and challenges to the development of …

Trial Watch: Toll-like receptor agonists in oncological indications

F Aranda, E Vacchelli, F Obrist, A Eggermont… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are an evolutionarily conserved group of enzymatically inactive,
single membrane-spanning proteins that recognize a wide panel of exogenous and …

Trial watch: immunostimulatory cytokines in cancer therapy

E Vacchelli, F Aranda, F Obrist, A Eggermont… - …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Tumor-targeting immune responses provide a significant contribution to (when they do not
entirely account for) the clinical activity of diverse antineoplastic regimens, encompassing …

Immunotoxins in the treatment of hematologic malignancies

RJ Kreitman, I Pastan - Current drug targets, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Immunotoxins, composed of protein toxins connected to cell binding ligands including
monoclonal antibodies and growth factors, have been developed for several decades to …

From pathogen to medicine: HIV‐1‐derived lentiviral vectors as vehicles for dendritic cell based cancer immunotherapy

M Dullaers, K Thielemans - The Journal of Gene Medicine: A …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Over the years, the unique capacity of dendritic cells (DC) for efficient activation of naive T
cells has led to their extensive use in cancer immunotherapy protocols. In order to be able to …

Gemcitabine enhances rituximab‐mediated complement‐dependent cytotoxicity to B cell lymphoma by CD20 upregulation

K Hayashi, E Nagasaki, S Kan, M Ito, Y Kamata… - Cancer …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although rituximab, a chimeric monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to CD20, has
significantly improved the prognosis for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), one‐third of …