Cancer immunotherapy : immune suppression and tumor growth /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cancer immunotherapy (Prendergast)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Prendergast, George C. (Editor), Jaffee, Elizabeth M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, [2013]
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Components of the immune system
  • Adaptive immunity : B cells and antibodies
  • Adaptive immunity : T cells and cytokines
  • Dendritic cells : antigen processing and presentation
  • Mucosal immunity
  • Cancer immunoediting : from surveillance to escape
  • Immunosurveillance : innate and adaptive antitumor immunity
  • Immunological sculpting : natural killer-cell receptors and ligands
  • Th17 cells in cancer
  • Immune escape : immunosuppressive networks
  • Principles of cytotoxic chemotherapy
  • Pharmacokinetics and safety assessment
  • Monoclonal antibodies for cancer therapy and prevention : paradigm studies in targeting the neu/ERBB2/HER2 oncoprotein
  • Genetic vaccines against cancer : design, testing and clinical performance
  • Comprehensive immunomonitoring to guide the development of immunotherapeutic products for cancer
  • Adoptive T-cell therapy : engineering T-cell receptors
  • Dendritic cell vaccines : sipuleucel-T and other approaches
  • Antibodies to stimulate host immunity : lessons from ipilimumab
  • Recombinant TRICOM-based therapeutic cancer vaccines : lessons learned
  • Adjuvant strategies for vaccines
  • Epigenetic approaches : emerging role of histone deacetylase inhibitors in cancer immunotherapy
  • Molecular profiling of immunotherapeutic resistance
  • Immune stimulatory features of classical chemotherapy
  • Immunotherapy and cancer therapeutics : a rich partnership
  • JAK/STAT signaling in myeloid cells : targets for cancer immunotherapy
  • Tumor-associated macrophages in cancer growth and progression
  • Tumor-induced myeloid-derived suppressor cells
  • HyperAcute vaccines : a novel cancer immunotherapy
  • Tumor exosomes and their impact on immunity and cancer progression
  • Galectins : key players in the tumor microenvironment
  • IDO in immune escape : regulation and therapeutic inhibition
  • IDO pathway : effect on Foxp3+ Tregs and cancer
  • Arginase, nitric oxide synthase, and novel inhibitors of l-arginine metabolism in immune modulation.