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2004 DEC 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review tumor vaccine therapy in a recent issue of Blood.
According to published research from the United States, "Fusion proteins containing chemokine receptor ligands have been used to selectively deliver tumor antigens to the MHC class II processing pathway in dendritic cells, promoting tumor-specific CD4 T-cell responses and tumor-specific immunity,"
"This novel strategy of vaccination, targeting the antigen-presenting cell (APC), may have broad application to T-cell immunotherapy," wrote Scott S. Zamvil and Thomas Prod'homme at the University of California-San Francisco.
Zamvil and Prod'homme …
Source: HighBeam Research, Tumor vaccine therapy reviewed.