The invention discloses a
DC vaccine and application of the
DC vaccine and NKG2D-CAR-T cells combined with the
DC vaccine in preparation of drugs for treating tumors and drugs for enhancing the
curative effect of the CAR-T cells. According to the combined
immunotherapy method for enhancing the
curative effect of the CAR-T cells and the application of the combined
immunotherapy method, the CAR-T cells are prepared from the NKG2D-CAR expressed on the T cells, the CAR-T cells and the DC vaccine loaded with the
tumor antigen RAE1 are co-cultured, the killing and multiplication capacity of the NKG2D-CAR-T cells, the
secretion and activation level of
cell effector factors and the like are studied, and the CAR-T cells and the DC vaccine loaded with the
tumor antigen RAE1 are used for enhancing the
curative effect of the CAR-T cells. Therefore, the influence of the DC vaccine on the anti-tumor aspect of the NKG2D-CAR-T cells is evaluated. The invention further provides an
osteosarcoma animal model, preparation thereof and application of the
osteosarcoma animal model in an in-vivo experiment in which the DC vaccine is combined with NKG2D-CAR-T cells to remarkably improve the tumor killing capacity. The invention also discloses a DC vaccine which can obviously improve the tumor killing ability of NKG2D-CAR-T cells, the activation and proliferation level is obviously improved, and in-vivo research finds that the
survival rate of mice is obviously improved, and a very good
tumor growth inhibition effect is achieved.