40 results about "Autologous tumor" patented technology

The invention relates to a preparation method and application of an autologous tumor vaccine. The method comprises the following specific steps: radiating and / or heating autologous tumor cells to greatly excite the antigenicity of the autologous tumor cells and enhance the presentation property of the antigen by using heat shock proteins; and inactivating the tumor cells and adding an adjuvant toobtain the vaccine. The vaccine prepared by using the method has the special advantages of high presentation property and high tumor immunogenicity, and can be used for greatly exciting the body fluidand cellular immune response of tumor patients to autologous tumors, monitoring immune response, and timely adjusting a usage method of the novel vaccine and adjuvant treatment, so that the aims of improving the antigenicity and metastatic tumor effect and prolonging the survival time of tumor patients are fulfilled.

The present invention concerns methods and compositions for administering a binding agent to a patient wherein the patient generates a response to autologous tumor. The binding agents target apoptotic tumor cells and facilitates the uptake of these apoptotic tumor cell are taken up by dendritic cells or other antigen presenting cells for processing and presentation to the immune system without the expression of circulating tumor-associated antigen (or without the need of circulating tumor antigen).

The invention relates to the treatment of cancer, and particularly to the treatment of cancers of the central nervous system, such as glioblastoma multiforme. A dual therapeutic approach is provided, including the administration of a dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine and a regimen of chemotherapy. The two therapies may be administered concurrently with one another and / or with an initial vaccination preceding chemotherapy. In various embodiments, the dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine includes either primed or unprimed dendritic cells; for instance, the dendritic cells may be autologous tumor antigen-presented dendritic cells. The dual therapeutic approach of the instant invention beneficially influences the chemosensitivity of a mammal with cancer.

The invention belongs to preparation of biological cell formulations, and in particular relates to a preparation method of dendritic cell (DC) vaccine loaded with autologous tumor associated holoantigen. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing the autologous tumor associated holoantigen, collecting and separately culturing DCs, impacting the DCs by the autologous tumor associated holoantigen, maturing the DCs and preparing autologous tumor antigen specific DC vaccine. The invention solves the problems in the prior art that the immunogenicity of tumor antigen is not strong enough, the antigen target spots are incomplete, the tumor antigens of most tumor patients are difficult to acquire, and the like. The DC vaccine provided by the invention has the advantages of effectively inducing tumor antigen specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) in vitro and in vivo, efficiently generating specific cytotoxicity on tumors, having high overall effective rate and no obvious toxic side effects in clinical application, and the like.

The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising α-Gal BOEL for use in treating patients with tumors. The invention also relates to methods of treating tumors using said compositions. The invention discloses that following intratumoral injection of α-Gal BOEL, binding of the natural anti-Gal antibody to de novo expressed tumoral α-Gal epitopes induces inflammation resulting in an anti-Gal antibody mediated opsonization of tumor cells and their uptake by antigen presenting cells. These antigen presenting cells migrate to draining lymph nodes and activate tumor specific T cells thereby converting the treated tumor lesions into in situ autologous tumor vaccines. This therapy can be applied to patients with multiple lesions and in neo-adjuvant therapy to patients before tumor resection. In addition to the regression and / or destruction of the treated tumor, such a vaccine will help in the immune mediated destruction of micrometastases that are not detectable during the removal of the treated tumor. The invention further teaches the enhancement of anti-tumor α-Gal BOEL treatment by the use of antibodies that inhibit the activity of immunological checkpoints molecules.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a tumor-specific DC vaccine by applying CD34+ cells in umbilical cord blood. The method comprises (1) a step of preparing autologous tumor-related holoantigen; (2) a step of obtaining the umbilical cord blood; (3) a step of obtaining mononuclear cells derived from the umbilical cord blood; (4) a step of purifying CD34+ cells in the mononuclear cells derived from the umbilical cord blood; (5) performing induction culture for a precursor DC; (6) a step of performing amplification and culture of an immature DC; and (7) a step of preparing the DC vaccine.