PMID- 30360963 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190916 LR - 20190916 IS - 1477-2566 (Electronic) IS - 1465-3249 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 11 DP - 2018 Nov TI - Empowering dendritic cell cancer vaccination: the role of combinatorial strategies. PG - 1309-1323 LID - S1465-3249(18)30616-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jcyt.2018.09.007 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) are bone marrow-derived immune cells that play a crucial role in inducing the adaptive immunity and supporting the innate immune response independently from T cells. In the last decade, DCs have become a hopeful instrument for cancer vaccines that aims at re-educating the immune system, leading to a potent anti-cancer immune response able to overcome the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). Although several studies have indicated that DC-based vaccines are feasible and safe, the clinical advantages of DC vaccination as monotherapy for most of the neoplasms remain a distant target. Recently, many reports and clinical trials have widely used innovative combinatorial therapeutic strategies to normalize the immune function in the TME and synergistically enhance DC function. This review will describe the most relevant and updated evidence of the anti-cancer combinatorial approaches to boost the clinical potency of DC-based vaccines. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Galati, Domenico AU - Galati D AD - Hematology-Oncology and Stem-Cell Transplantation Unit, Department of Hematology and Innovative Therapies, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione 'G. Pascale', Napoli, Italy. Electronic address: d.galati@istitutotumori.na.it. FAU - Zanotta, Serena AU - Zanotta S AD - Hematology-Oncology and Stem-Cell Transplantation Unit, Department of Hematology and Innovative Therapies, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione 'G. Pascale', Napoli, Italy. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20181022 PL - England TA - Cytotherapy JT - Cytotherapy JID - 100895309 RN - 0 (CTLA-4 Antigen) RN - 0 (CTLA4 protein, human) RN - 0 (Cancer Vaccines) RN - 0 (Immunosuppressive Agents) SB - IM MH - Adaptive Immunity MH - Animals MH - CTLA-4 Antigen/immunology MH - Cancer Vaccines/immunology/*pharmacology MH - Dendritic Cells/*immunology/transplantation MH - Humans MH - Immunity, Innate MH - Immunosuppressive Agents/pharmacology MH - Immunotherapy/methods MH - Neoplasms/immunology/*therapy MH - T-Lymphocytes/immunology MH - Tumor Microenvironment/*immunology OTO - NOTNLM OT - cancer vaccines OT - combination strategies OT - dendritic cell vaccines OT - dendritic cells OT - immunotherapy EDAT- 2018/10/27 06:00 MHDA- 2019/09/17 06:00 CRDT- 2018/10/27 06:00 PHST- 2018/06/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/09/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/09/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/10/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/09/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/10/27 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1465-3249(18)30616-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jcyt.2018.09.007 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cytotherapy. 2018 Nov;20(11):1309-1323. doi: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2018.09.007. Epub 2018 Oct 22.