Experimental and Applied Immunotherapy

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Foreword, by Carl H. June, M.D. I T Cell Therapy: State-of-the-Art Chapter 1: Extending the Use of Adoptive T Cell Immunotherapy for Infections and Cancer, by Ulrike Gerdemann and Malcolm K. Brenner II Non-T Cell Therapeutic Approaches Chapter 2: B Lymphocytes in Cancer Immunology, by David Spaner Chapter 3: Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for Cancer, by Christoph Rader Chapter 4: Natural Killer Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy, by Yoko Kosaka and Armand Keating Chapter 5: Dendritic Cell Based Cancer Vaccines: Practical Considerations, by Elizabeth Scheid, Michael Ricci, and Ronan Foley Chapter 6: Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: an Emerging Cell-based Pharmaceutical, by Mo ra Fran ois and Jacques Galipeau III T Cell Therapeutic Approaches Chapter 7: Tumor-specific Mutations as Targets for Cancer Immunotherapy, by Brad H. Nelson, John R. Webb Chapter 8: Counteracting Subversion of MHC Class II Antigen Presentation by Tumors, by Jacques Thibodeau, Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault, and R jean Lapointe Chapter 9: Mechanisms and Implications of Immunodominance in CD8+ T-Cell Responses, by Claude Perreault Chapter 10: T Regulatory Cells and Cancer Immunotherapy, by Adele Y. Wang and Megan K. Levings Chapter 11: Negative Regulators in Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy, by Wolfgang Zimmermann and Robert Kammerer Chapter 12: Genetically Engineered Antigen Specificity in T Cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy, by Daniel J. Powell Jr. and Bruce L. Levine IV Non-Cellular Aspects of Cancer Immunotherapy Chapter 13: Cytokine Immunotherapy, by Megan Nelles, Vincenzo Salerno, Yixin Xu, and Christopher J. Paige Chapter 14: Transcriptional Modulation using Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors for Cancer Immunotherapy, by Takashi Murakami Chapter 15: Combining Cancer Vaccines with Conventional Therapies, by Natalie Grinshtein and Jonathan Bramson Chapter 16: Combining Oncolytic Viruses with Cancer Immunotherapy, by Kyle Stephenson, John Bell, and Brian Lichty Chapter 17: Radiation Therapy and Cancer Treatment: From the Basics
to Combination Therapies that Ignite Immunity, by David A. Jaffray, and Jeffrey A. Medin Chapter 18: Assessing Immunotherapy through Cellular and Molecular Imaging, by John W. Barrett, Bryan Au, Ryan Buensuceso, Sonali de Chickera, Vasiliki Economopoulos, Paula Foster, and Gregory A. Dekaban V Transplantation Chapter 19: Converging Themes in Allogeneic and Autologous Transplantation, by Daniel Fowler

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1627038221
• ISBN13: 9781627038225
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"