| Literature DB >> 25941610 |
Mary L Disis1, William C Watt1, Denise L Cecil1.
Abstract
New cancer immunotherapies mark progress in our understanding of tumor biology and harnessing the immune system's management of self. However, protein- and peptide-based vaccines are not yet consistently efficacious. Recent work uncovers principles governing the genesis of T helper type-restrictive immunity to self-antigens elicited by vaccine epitopes, enabling vaccines to skew the balance from tolerogenic Type II (Th2) to inflammatory Type I (Th1) T cells, and invigorating this cancer immunotherapeutic approach.Entities:
Keywords: Helper T-cells; IGFBP-2; Th1; Th2; epitope
Year: 2014 PMID: 25941610 PMCID: PMC4292222 DOI: 10.4161/21624011.2014.954971
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Oncoimmunology ISSN: 2162-4011 Impact factor: 8.110