Cancer immunotherapy : immune suppression and tumor growth /: immune suppression and tumor growth. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by George Prendergast, Elizabeth M. Jaffee.
• Other Names: Prendergast, George C; Jaffee, Elizabeth M
• Contents: Introduction / George C. Prendergast and Elizabeth M. Jaffee -- Cancer immunoediting : from immune surveillance to immune escape / Ryungsa Kim -- Immunosurveillance : innate and adaptive antitumor immunity / Masahisa Jinushi and Glenn Dranoff -- Cytokine regulation of immune tolerance to tumors / Ming O. Li and Richard A. Flavell -- Immunological sculpting : natural killer cell receptors and ligands / David A. Sallman and Julie Y. Djeu -- Immune escape : immunosuppressive networks / Shuang Wei, Alfred Chang, and Weiping Zou -- Cytotoxic chemotherapy in clinical treatment of cancer / Rajesh Thirumaran, George C. Prendergast, and Paul B. Gilman -- Targeted therapeutics in cancer treatment / Colin D. Weekes and Manuel Hidalgo -- Concepts in pharmacology and toxicology / Richard A. Westhouse and Bruce D. Car -- Cancer immunotherapy : challenges and opportunities / Andrew J. Lepisto, John R. McKolanis, and Olivera J. Finn -- Cancer vaccines / Freda K. Stevenson ... [et al.] -- Immunotherapy and cancer therapeutics : why partner? / Leisha A. Emens and Elizabeth M. Jaffee -- Immune stimulatory features of classical chemotherapy / Robbert G. van der Most, Anna K. Nowak, and Richard A. Lake -- Dendritic cells and coregulatory signals : immune checkpoint blockade to stimulate immunotherapy / Drew Pardoll -- Regulatory T cells in tumor immunity : role of toll-like receptors / Rong-Fu Wang -- Tumor-associated macrophages in cancer growth and progression / Alberto Mantovani, Paola Allavena, and Antonio Sica -- Tumor-associated myeloid-derived suppressor cells / Stephanie K. Bunt ... [et al.] -- Programmed death ligand-1 and galectin-1 : pieces in the puzzle of tumor-immune escape / Gabriel A. Rabinovich and Thomas F. Gajewski -- Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase in immune escape : regulation and therapeutic inhibition / Alexander J. Muller and George C. Prendergast -- Arginase, nitric oxide synthase, and novel inhibitors of L-arginine metabolism in immune modulation / Susanna Mandruzzato, Simone Mocellin, and Vincenzo Bronte.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (428 pages)
• Subjects: 616.994061; Cancer -- Immunotherapy; Antineoplastic agents -- Therapeutic use; Tumors -- Immunological aspects; Neoplasms -- therapy; Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use; Immunotherapy -- methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080521855; 0080521851
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