Immune monitoring using mRNA-transfected dendritic cells

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Dendritic cells are known to be the most potent antigen presenting cell in the immune system and are used as cellular adjuvants in therapeutic anticancer vaccines using various tumor-associated antigens or their derivatives. One way of loading antigen into the dendritic cells is by mRNA electroporation, ensuring presentation of antigen through major histocompatibility complex I and potentially activating T cells, enabling them to kill the tumor cells. Despite extensive research in the field, only one dendritic cell-based vaccine has been approved. There is therefore a great need to elucidate and understand the immunological impact of dendritic cell vaccination in order to improve clinical benefit. In this chapter, we describe a method for performing immune monitoring using peripheral blood mononuclear cells and autologous dendritic cells transfected with tumor-associated antigen-encoding mRNA.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelSynthetic mRNA : Production, Introduction Into Cells, and Physiological Consequences
Antal sider15
Vol/bind1428
ForlagHumana Press
Publikationsdato2016
Sider245-259
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-4939-3623-6
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-1-4939-3625-0
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2016
NavnMethods in Molecular Biology
Vol/bind1428
ISSN1064-3745

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