PMID- 24904573 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20140624 LR - 20211021 IS - 1664-3224 (Print) IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 5 DP - 2014 TI - Dendritic Cell Therapy in an Allogeneic-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Setting: An Effective Strategy toward Better Disease Control? PG - 218 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00218 [doi] LID - 218 AB - Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a last treatment resort and only potentially curative treatment option for several hematological malignancies resistant to chemotherapy. The induction of profound immune regulation after allogeneic HCT is imperative to prevent graft-versus-host reactions and, at the same time, allow protective immune responses against pathogens and against tumor cells. Dendritic cells (DCs) are highly specialized antigen-presenting cells that are essential in regulating this balance and are of major interest as a tool to modulate immune responses in the complex and challenging phase of immune reconstitution early after allo-HCT. This review focuses on the use of DC vaccination to prevent cancer relapses early after allo-HCT. It describes the role of host and donor-DCs, various vaccination strategies, different DC subsets, antigen loading, DC maturation/activation, and injection sites and dose. At last, clinical trials using DC vaccination post-allo-HCT and the future perspectives of DC vaccination in combination with other cancer immunotherapies are discussed. FAU - Plantinga, Maud AU - Plantinga M AD - Utrecht - Dendritic cells AgaiNst CancEr (U-DANCE), Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Department of Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands. FAU - de Haar, Colin AU - de Haar C AD - Utrecht - Dendritic cells AgaiNst CancEr (U-DANCE), Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Department of Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands. FAU - Nierkens, Stefan AU - Nierkens S AD - Utrecht - Dendritic cells AgaiNst CancEr (U-DANCE), Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Department of Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands. FAU - Boelens, Jaap Jan AU - Boelens JJ AD - Utrecht - Dendritic cells AgaiNst CancEr (U-DANCE), Laboratory of Translational Immunology, Department of Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands ; Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, Department of Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20140519 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 PMC - PMC4032952 OTO - NOTNLM OT - DC-vaccination OT - T-cell responses OT - disease control OT - hematopoietic cell transplantation OT - relapse EDAT- 2014/06/07 06:00 MHDA- 2014/06/07 06:01 PMCR- 2014/01/01 CRDT- 2014/06/07 06:00 PHST- 2014/01/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/04/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/06/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/06/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/06/07 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2014/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00218 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2014 May 19;5:218. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00218. eCollection 2014.