title: Treatment of transplanted CT26 tumour with dendritic cell vaccine in combination with blockade of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 and CTLA-4.
abstract: We investigated the anti CT26 tumour effect of dendritic cell based vaccination with the MuLV gp70 envelope protein-derived peptides AH1 and p320-333. Vaccination lead to generation of AH1 specific cytotoxic lymphocytes (CTL) and some decrease in tumour growth of simultaneously inoculated CT26 cells. After combination with an antibody against VEGF receptor 2 (DC101), a significant increase in survival of the tumour cell recipients was observed. Also, monotherapy with an antibody against CTLA-4 (9H10), led to approximately 100% survival of tumour cell recipients. However, effective treatment of mice with already established tumours was only obtained after combination of vaccination, DC101 and 9H10 treatment in which setting 80% of the mice rejected their tumours.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Department of Medical Anatomy A, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. elmpedersen@mai.ku.dk
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buus
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Claesson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015703:Antigens, CD; D000943:Antigens, Differentiation / Q000276:immunology*; D060908:CTLA-4 Antigen; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology; D014611:Vaccination; D014612:Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D040301:Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D000943:Antigens, Differentiation; D060908:CTLA-4 Antigen; C556707:Ctla4 protein, mouse; D018984:Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; D014612:Vaccines; D040301:Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2