Therapeutic activation of Valpha24+Vbeta11+ NKT cells in human subjects results in highly coordinated secondary activation of acquired and innate immunity - PubMed (original) (raw)

Clinical Trial

. 2004 Jan 15;103(2):383-9.

doi: 10.1182/blood-2003-04-1155. Epub 2003 Sep 25.

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Therapeutic activation of Valpha24+Vbeta11+ NKT cells in human subjects results in highly coordinated secondary activation of acquired and innate immunity

Mie Nieda et al. Blood. 2004.

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Abstract

Human Valpha24+Vbeta11+ natural killer T (NKT) cells are a distinct CD1d-restricted lymphoid subset specifically and potently activated by alpha-galactosylceramide (alpha-GalCer) (KRN7000) presented by CD1d on antigen-presenting cells. Preclinical models show that activation of Valpha24+Vbeta11+ NKT cells induces effective antitumor immune responses and potentially important secondary immune effects, including activation of conventional T cells and NK cells. We describe the first clinical trial of cancer immune therapy with alpha-GalCer-pulsed CD1d-expressing dendritic cells. The results show that this therapy has substantial, rapid, and highly reproducible specific effects on Valpha24+Vbeta11+ NKT cells and provide the first human in vivo evidence that Valpha24+Vbeta11+ NKT cell stimulation leads to activation of both innate and acquired immunity, resulting in modulation of NK, T-, and B-cell numbers and increased serum interferon-gamma. We present the first clinical evidence that Valpha24+Vbeta11+ NKT cell memory produces faster, more vigorous secondary immune responses by innate and acquired immunity upon restimulation.

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