title: Bone marrow-derived dendritic cells pulsed with synthetic tumour peptides elicit protective and therapeutic antitumour immunity.
abstract: Dendritic cells, the most potent 'professional' antigen-presenting cells, hold promise for improving the immunotherapy of cancer. In three different well-characterized tumour models, naive mice injected with bone marrow-derived dendritic cells prepulsed with tumour-associated peptides previously characterized as being recognized by class I major histocompatibility complex-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes, developed a specific T-lymphocyte response and were protected against a subsequent lethal tumour challenge. Moreover, in the C3 sarcoma and the 3LL lung carcinoma murine models, treatment of animals bearing established macroscopic tumours (up to 1 cm2 in size) with tumour peptide-pulsed dendritic cells resulted in sustained tumour regression and tumour-free status in more than 80% of cases. These results support the clinical use of tumour peptide-pulsed dendritic cells as components in developing effective cancer vaccines and therapies.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017951:Antigen Presentation; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology / Q000637:transplantation*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D012513:Sarcoma, Experimental / Q000628:therapy*; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic