Tumor-Induced Immune Suppression (eBook)

Mechanisms and Therapeutic Reversal

Dmitry I. Gabrilovich, Arthur Andrew Hurwitz (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 2008
X, 302 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-69118-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This monograph, for the first time, presents a comprehensive overview of different mechanisms of immune dysfunction in cancer as well as therapeutic approaches to their correction. It discusses a number of new mechanisms that have never been discussed in a monograph before: T-cell inhibitory molecules, regulatory tolerogenic DCs, and signaling pathways in antigen-presenting cells involved in T-cell tolerance. There is now a pressing need to discuss the already described and newly emerging mechanisms to see how they can be put together in a more or less cohesive structure and how they can help to improve immune response to tumors.

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There is now a pressing need to discuss the already described and newly emerging mechanisms to see how they can be put together in more or less cohesive structure and how they can help to improve immune response to tumors. This monograph will, for the first time, present a comprehensive overview of different mechanisms of immune dysfunction in cancer as well as therapeutic approaches to their correction. It will discuss a number of new mechanisms that have never been discussed in a monograph before: T-cell inhibitory molecules, regulatory tolerogenic DCs, and signaling pathways in antigen-presenting cells involved in T-cell tolerance.

Inhalt

Immune-Suppressive Mechanisms and Cancer: Understanding the Implications, Paradoxes, and Burning Questions.- Mechanisms of Tumor-Associated T-Cell Tolerance.- Contribution of B7-H1/PD-1 Co-inhibitory Pathway to T-Cell Dysfunction in Cancer.- Regulatory T Cells in Cancer.- Cancer-Induced Signaling Defects in Antitumor T Cells.- Immunobiology of Dendritic Cells in Cancer.- Macrophages and Tumor Development.- Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Cancer.- Signaling Pathways in Antigen-Presenting Cells Involved in the Induction of Antigen-Specific T-Cell Tolerance.- Arginine Availability Regulates T-Cell Function in Cancer.- Protein–Glycan Interactions in the Regulation of Immune Cell Function in Cancer: Lessons from the Study of Galectins-1 and -3.- Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in T-Cell Defects in Cancer.- Tumor Stroma and the Antitumor Immune Response.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2008
• Zusatzinfo: X, 302 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Antigen • Apoptosis • B7-H1/PD-1 • Cancer • Dendritic cells • Immune Suppressive Mechanisms • Immunobiology • inhibitory pathway • Macrophages • Molecular mechanisms • Regulation • T Cell • Tumor Development
• ISBN-10: 0-387-69118-9 / 0387691189
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-69118-3 / 9780387691183