PMID- 28732279 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180521 LR - 20181113 IS - 1879-0372 (Electronic) IS - 0952-7915 (Print) IS - 0952-7915 (Linking) VI - 47 DP - 2017 Aug TI - Turbocharging vaccines: emerging adjuvants for dendritic cell based therapeutic cancer vaccines. PG - 35-43 LID - S0952-7915(17)30012-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.coi.2017.06.003 [doi] AB - Development of therapeutic cancer vaccines has been hindered by the many pro-tumorigenic mechanisms at play in cancer patients that serve to suppress both antigen presenting cells and T cells. In face of these obstacles, cancer vaccines are most likely to promote anti-tumorigenic immune responses only when formulated with strong adjuvants, and in combination with new immune interventions designed to reverse immune suppression and exhaustion of T cells in the tumor microenvironment. Dendritic cells (DCs) are often termed 'nature's adjuvant' due to their exceptional capacity for initiating both innate and adaptive immune responses. Hence, the past decade has witnessed a flurry of activity in testing DC based immunotherapies for cancer intervention. In this review we will discuss advances in conventional adjuvants and provide insight into new adjuvants as they pertain to DC cancer therapy. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Saxena, Mansi AU - Saxena M AD - The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA. FAU - Bhardwaj, Nina AU - Bhardwaj N AD - The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA; Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy, USA. Electronic address: nina.bhardwaj@mssm.edu. LA - eng GR - R01 AI081848/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA180913/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA201189/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20170718 PL - England TA - Curr Opin Immunol JT - Current opinion in immunology JID - 8900118 RN - 0 (Adjuvants, Immunologic) RN - 0 (Cancer Vaccines) SB - IM MH - Adjuvants, Immunologic MH - Animals MH - Antigen Presentation MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*immunology MH - Cancer Vaccines/*immunology MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology/transplantation MH - Humans MH - Immunity, Humoral MH - Immunotherapy, Adoptive/*methods MH - Lymphocyte Activation MH - Neoplasms/immunology/*therapy MH - Tumor Microenvironment PMC - PMC5626599 MID - NIHMS891167 EDAT- 2017/07/22 06:00 MHDA- 2018/05/22 06:00 PMCR- 2018/08/01 CRDT- 2017/07/22 06:00 PHST- 2017/04/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/06/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/07/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/05/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/07/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0952-7915(17)30012-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.coi.2017.06.003 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Opin Immunol. 2017 Aug;47:35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2017.06.003. Epub 2017 Jul 18.