Cell therapy : stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, and cellular immunotherapy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morstyn, George, 1950-, Sheridan, William, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Series:Cancer, clinical science in practice.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Aspects of hemopoiesis and the immune system important for cell therapy
  • Overview of hemopoiesis and hempoietic reconstruction
  • Effector cells of experimental and clinical cellular adoptive immunobiology
  • Hemopoietic cell therapy
  • Scientific principles
  • Current and potential uses of defined cell populations
  • Human progenitor cell assays
  • Flow cytometric techniques
  • Principles of gene therapy
  • Technology of cell collection and preparation
  • Sources of hemopoietic progenitor cells for transplantation.
  • Chemotherapy-based approaches to mobilization of progenitor cells
  • Cytokine-only approaches to mobilization of progenitor cells
  • Characterization and isolation of mobilized peripheral blood stems cells using a high-speed cell sorter
  • Hemopoietic stem cell selection using monoclonal antibodies
  • Magnetic approaches to cell separation
  • Growth factors and ex vivo expansion of hemopoietic progenitor cells
  • Bioreactors for expansion
  • Purging of malignant cells
  • Current clinical approaches.
  • Dose-intensive chemotherapy without hemopoietic cell support
  • Clinical potential of hemopoietic growth-factor support for high-dose chemotherapy
  • Treatment of solid tumors with high-dose chemotherapy requiring cellular support
  • High-dose chemotherapy with cellular support for hematological malignancies
  • Allogeneic marrow transplantation as treatment for myeloid malignancies: why it works and how it might be improved
  • Future clinical applications
  • Clinical gene therapy.
  • Gene therapy of enzyme and immune deficiencies in the hemopoietic system
  • Cellular therapy approaches to the treatment of AIDS
  • Experimental and clinical cellular immunotherapy
  • Adoptive immunotherapy with T cells
  • Cellular adoptive immunotherapy with natural killer cells
  • Autologous tumor cell vaccines
  • Allogeneic cellular vaccines against tumors
  • Neutrophil transfusions for treatment of infections
  • Experimental and clinical cellular immunotherapy in bone-mararow transplantation.
  • Donor lymphocyte therapy in bone-marrow transplantation.