61 results about "Invariant natural killer T-cell" patented technology

The application provides new compositions and methods for stimulating the production of natural killer (NK) cells in a subject. NK cells can be selectively expanded with a combination of stimulating ligands. Methods and compositions for the administration of stimulatory ligands modified to self-insert into tumor cells, thereby stimulating an increase in the number of NK cells in proximity to a tumor, are also described.

This invention relates to a natural killer cell line termed NK-92. The invention provides a vector for transfecting a mammalian cell which includes a nucleic acid sequence encoding a cytokine that promotes the growth of NK-92. Additionally, the invention provides an NK-92 cell, or an NK-92 cell modified by transfection with a vector conferring advantageous properties, which is unable to proliferate and which preserves effective cytotoxic activity. The invention further provides a modified NK-92 cell that is transfected with a vector encoding a cytokine that promotes the growth of NK-92 cells. The cell secretes the cytokine upon being cultured under conditions that promote cytokine secretion, and furthermore secretes the cytokine in vivo upon being introduced into a mammal. In a significant embodiment, the cytokine is interleukin 2. The present invention also provides methods of purging cancer cells from a biological sample, of treating a cancer ex vivo in a mammal, and of treating a cancer in vivo in a mammal employing a natural killer cell, such as NK-92 itself, an NK-92 cell which is unable to proliferate and which preserves effective cytotoxic activity, or natural killer cells transfected with a vector encoding a cytokine.

Expansion of human Vα24+ natural killer T by culturing a monocyte fraction obtainable from human peripheral blood in the presence of a cytokine capable of proliferating and / or activating lymphocytes and α-glycosylceramide cells, the hematopoietic stem cells in the peripheral blood are mobilized by granulocyte-colony stimulating factor. The cell fraction containing human Vα24+ natural killer T cells expanded by this method can be used as an effective cancer therapeutic agent.

Provided herein are placental perfusate, placental perfusate cells, and placenta-derived intermediate natural killer (PINK) cells, and combinations thereof. Also provided herein are compositions comprising the same, and methods of using placental perfusate, placental perfusate cells, and placenta-derived intermediate natural killer cells, and combinations thereof, to suppress the growth or proliferation of tumor cells, cancer cells, and the like, and to treat individuals having tumor cells. In a preferred embodiment, the composition comprises: solated CD56+, CD16- natural killer cells.

The present invention regards methods and / or compositions related to Natural Killer T cells that are engineered to harbor an expression construct that encodes IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, and / or IL-15 and additionally or alternatively comprise a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). In specific embodiments, the CAR is a CAR that targets the GD2 antigen, for example in neuroblastoma.

The present invention regards methods and / or compositions related to Natural Killer T cells that are engineered to harbor an expression construct that encodes IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, and / or IL-15 and additionally or alternatively comprise a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). In specific embodiments, the CAR is a CAR that targets the GD2 antigen, for example in neuroblastoma.