Immunotherapy - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Immunotherapy for neuroblastoma: turning promise into reality.

29 Nov 2009 Neuroblastoma is one of the commonest and most aggressive paediatric malignancies. The majority of children present with metastatic disease for which long-term survival remains poor despite intensive multi-modal therapies. Toxicity from current ... Read more...

Immune responses in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with dendritic cells pulsed with tumor lysate.

30 Oct 2009 Patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) have a limited life expectancy but still a subset of these patients develop immune and clinical responses after immunotherapy including dendritic cell (DC) vaccination. In a recently published ... Read more...

The effects of electroacupuncture on TH1/TH2 cytokine mRNA expression and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways in the splenic T cells of traumatized rats.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Surgical trauma contributes to postoperative immune suppression, which is associated with an increased susceptibility to subsequent infections. Electroacupuncture (EA) can alleviate pain and exert immunoregulatory effects. However, the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Immunotherapy - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Immunotherapy for neuroblastoma: turning promise into reality. 29 Nov 2009
• Immune responses in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with dendritic cells pulsed with tumor lysate. 30 Oct 2009
• Controlling hepatitis C with immunotherapy. 30 Oct 2009
• The effects of electroacupuncture on TH1/TH2 cytokine mRNA expression and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways in the splenic T cells of traumatized rats. 30 Oct 2009
• Re: Practice parameters and technology assessments: what they are, what they are not, and why you should care. 18 Oct 2009
• [Allergy vaccination] 3 Oct 2009
• Adaptive immunity in hepatocellular carcinoma: prognostic and therapeutic implications. 29 Sep 2009
• Immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis: the curious case of interferon beta. 29 Sep 2009
• Phase I active immunotherapy with combination of two chimeric, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, B-cell epitopes fused to a promiscuous T-cell epitope in patients with metastatic and/or recurrent solid tumors. 12 Sep 2009
• Immunotherapy with interleukin-18 in combination with preoperative chemotherapy with ifosfamide effectively inhibits postoperative progression of pulmonary metastases in a mouse osteosarcoma model. 7 Sep 2009
• Do immunotherapy and beta cell replacement play a synergistic role in the treatment of type 1 diabetes? 7 Sep 2009
• Tumor immunosuppressive environment: effects on tumor-specific and nontumor antigen immune responses. 30 Aug 2009
• Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D gene therapy restores alpha-sarcoglycan and associated proteins. 30 Aug 2009
• The role of iNKT cells in the immunopathology of systemic lupus erythematosus. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical use of anti-CD25 antibody daclizumab to enhance immune responses to tumor antigen vaccination by targeting regulatory T cells. 30 Aug 2009
• Identification of immunologic biomarkers associated with clinical response after immune-based therapy for cancer. 30 Aug 2009
• Targets of protective tumor immunity. 30 Aug 2009
• Harnessing CD1d-restricted T cells toward antitumor immunity in humans. 30 Aug 2009
• Witch hunt against tumor cells enhanced by dendritic cells. 30 Aug 2009
• Dendritic cell-based vaccines for pancreatic cancer and melanoma. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Immunotherapy'

Definition: Manipulation of the host's immune system in treatment of disease. It includes both active and passive immunization as well as immunosuppressive therapy to prevent graft rejection.

Descriptor UI: D007167

Alternative terms: Immunotherapy; Immunotherapies;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence;

Tree Number: E02.095.520;

Online Note: use IMMUNOTHERAPY to search VACCINE THERAPY 1966-72

History Note: 73; VACCINE THERAPY was heading 1963-82

Technical Notes: GEN only; do not use /util except by MeSH definition; for ther: coord IM with dis /ther (IM)