[Probability of vaccine therapy for pancreas cancer]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1996 Oct;23(12):1676-8.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

To explore the possibility of vaccine therapy for pancreatic cancer using ras oncogenic protein related antigen we studied whether cytotoxic T lymphocyte for tumor rejection can be induced by vaccination using the peptide relating mutated ras protein. Splenocytes from mice immunized by peptide (9-15 mer) relating mutated ras protein with normal splenocytes specifically increased in the culture with the peptide. The harvested splenic lymphocytes from the mice had peptide specific lysis against B 6 fibroblast incubated with the peptide. These results suggested that immunization using the peptide relating mutated ras peptide with autologous antigen presenting cell can be a vaccine therapy for pancreatic cancer.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cancer Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy, Active*
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / immunology
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / therapy*
  • T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / immunology
  • T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer / immunology
  • ras Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • Cancer Vaccines
  • ras Proteins