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Adoptive immunotherapy with redirected T cells produces CCR7- cells that are trapped in the periphery and benefit from combined CD28-OX40 costimulation.
Human gene therapy - 1 Mar 2013
Hombach Andreas A, Chmielewski Markus, Rappl Gunter, Abken Hinrich
Abstract excerpt
Adoptive therapy of cancer with genetically redirected T cells showed spectacular efficacy in recent trials. A body of preclinical and clinical data indicate that young effector and central memory T cells perform superior in a primary antitumor response; repetitive antigen engagement, however, drives T-cell maturation to terminally differentiated cells associated with the loss of CCR7, which enables T cells to...
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