title: CD40 ligand immunotherapy in cancer: an efficient approach.
abstract: Cancer cells do not elicit a clinically sufficient anti-tumor immune response that results in tumor rejection. Recently, many investigators have been trying to enhance anti-tumor immunity and encouraging results have been reported. This review will discuss current anti-cancer immunotherapy; interleukin-2 therapy, tumor vaccine secreting Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor, dendritic cells fused with tumor cells, and CD40 ligand immunotherapy. Moreover, we introduce our two kinds of CD40 ligand immuno-genetherapy; (1) oral CD40 ligand gene therapy against lymphoma using attenuated Salmonella typhimurium (published in BLOOD 2000), (2) cancer vaccine transfected with CD40 ligand ex vivo for neuroblastoma (unpublished). Both approaches resulted in a high degree of protection against the tumor progression and they are simple and safe in the murine system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kuwashima
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kageyama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Eto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Urashima
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D023201:CD40 Ligand / Q000235:genetics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000502:physiology; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000627:therapeutic use; D051379:Mice; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000628:therapy; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000235:genetics; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D007376:Interleukin-2; D019444:Vaccines, DNA; D023201:CD40 Ligand; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor