PMID- 24619669 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141114 LR - 20140312 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 1139 DP - 2014 TI - Ex vivo loading of autologous dendritic cells with tumor antigens. PG - 41-4 LID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-0345-0_5 [doi] AB - Ex vivo-generated antigen-loaded dendritic cells (DC) have been shown to be immunogenic in patients with cancer. Loading DC with autologous whole tumor antigens is a strategy to arm DC against tumor without human leukocyte antigen (HLA) restriction. Furthermore, this approach allows the presentation of a full antigen range to the immune system. We describe the methods to obtain whole antigens from autologous tumor tissues in order to load DC generated ex vivo from patients with gastrointestinal cancer. FAU - Rizzo, Manglio M AU - Rizzo MM AD - Gene Therapy Laboratory, Facultad de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina. FAU - Alaniz, Laura AU - Alaniz L FAU - Mazzolini, Guillermo AU - Mazzolini G LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Antigens, Neoplasm) RN - 0 (Autoantigens) SB - IM MH - Antigens, Neoplasm/*immunology MH - Autoantigens/*immunology MH - Cell Culture Techniques MH - Dendritic Cells/cytology/*immunology MH - Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/immunology/therapy MH - Humans MH - Immunotherapy, Adoptive/*methods EDAT- 2014/03/13 06:00 MHDA- 2014/11/15 06:00 CRDT- 2014/03/13 06:00 PHST- 2014/03/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/03/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/11/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-4939-0345-0_5 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1139:41-4. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0345-0_5.