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8153426 Preparation of antigen-presenting human gamma-delta T cells and use in immunotherapy  
The invention relates to a method for the preparation of efficient antigen-presenting human γδ T cells, to the γδ T cells prepared by such a method, and to their use in immunotherapy, vac...
8133728 Ex-vivo priming for generating cytotoxic T lymphocytes specific for non-tumor antigens to treat autoimmune and allergic disease  
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for antigenic peptides derived from IgE molecule can be generated in vitro by stimulating resting naive CD8 T cells with IgE peptides presented by artificial...
8129185 Regulatory T cells and their use in immunotherapy and suppression of autoimmune responses  
Based upon a strong correlation between regulator T cells (Treg cells) and suppressing or preventing a cytotoxic T cell response, provided are methods for the production of ex vivo activated and...
8124069 Immunogenic peptides  
The invention provides relatively short immunogenic peptides, and biologically active variants thereof, associated with leukemia which elicit an immune response. Nucleic acids encoding the...
8124408 Preparation of inactivated artificial antigen presenting cells and their use in cell therapies  
Methods of processing inactivated artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPCs) and artificial antigen presenting cells with specificity for selected antigenic peptides are described, including their...
8119401 IL-10 gene transfer to peripheral mononuclear cells  
The present invention to methods for producing mononuclear cells overexpressing IL-10. The method comprises the ex vivo introduction of an expression construct comprising a nucleotide sequence...
8080416 Method for determining the immunogenicity of an antigen  
The present invention relates to methods for preparing an artificial immune system. The artificial immune system comprises a cell culture comprising T cells, B cells and antigen-primed dendritic...
8076133 Method for obtaining antigen-specific Tr1 regulatory lymphocytes  
The invention relates to a method for preparing antigen-specific Tr1 regulatory lymphocytes. The inventive method involves the use of artificial antigen-presenting cells expressing a molecule from...
8076134 CD4+CD25− T cells and Tr1-like regulatory T cells  
The invention provides CD4+CD25− T cells and Tr1-like regulatory T cells (i.e., contact-independent Type 1-like regulatory T cells), processes for their production and their use for regulatory p...
8076135 Method of preparing a treatment effective amount of allogeneic T-cells  
Ex-vivo prepared T-cells are harvested from cell culture conditions and formulated in medium suitable for infusion. The formulation is made by labeling the cells with one or more agents which have...
8071373 Co-culture lymphoid tissue equivalent (LTE) for an artificial immune system (AIS)  
The present invention relates to methods for preparing an artificial immune system. The artificial immune system comprises a cell culture comprising T cells, B cells and antigen-primed dendritic...
8071374 Methods for preparing T-cells for cell therapy  
T-cells are generated with enhanced immunostimulatory capabilities for use in self therapy treatment protocols, by utilizing a biodegradable device with a biodegradable support that has one or more...
8053235 Methods of generating antigen-specific CD4+CD25+regulatory T cells, compositions and methods of use  
The present invention provides methods for generating mammalian T cell populations comprising antigen-specific CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells from freshly isolated CD4+CD25− T cells. The method c...
8034334 Immunotherapy with in vitro-selected antigen-specific lymphocytes after non-myeloablative lymphodepleting chemotherapy  
A method of promoting the regression of a cancer in a mammal comprising: (i) administering to the mammal nonmyeloablative lymphodepleting chemotherapy, and (ii) subsequently administering: (a)...
8017110 Induction of and maintenance of nucleic acid damage in pathogens using riboflavin and light  
A process for damaging and maintaining damage to the nucleic acids of pathogens such as white blood cells, bacteria and viruses which may be contained in blood or blood components. This process...
8017730 T cell receptors which specifically bind to VYGFVRACL-HLA-A24  
The present invention provides isolated T cell receptors (TCRs) having the property of specifically binding to the VYGFVRACL (SEQ ID NO:1)-HLA-A24 peptide-MHC. Such TCRs are useful, either alone or...
8012470 Method for ex vivo immunization using heterologous intact bispecific and/or trispecific antibodies  
According to the invention there is described a method for ex vivo immunization of humans and animals comprising the following steps of: a) isolating autologous tumor cells;b) treating the tumor...
8012750 T-cell activation device  
A biodegradable device for activating T-cells includes a biodegradable support and a binder attached to the biodegradable support, the binder having reactivity to one or more agents capable of...
7998736 Adoptive immunotherapy with enhanced T lymphocyte survival  
The invention provides for compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions, comprising a T lymphocyte, or a population thereof, expressing at least one recombinant polynucleotide encoding a...
7998681 Diagnosis and therapy of antibody-mediated inflammatory auto-immune disorders  
The present invention describes diagnosis and treatment of antibody-mediated inflammatory auto-immune diseases. The biochemical mechanisms underlying such disorders are described as characteristic...
7977095 Generation and isolation of antigen-specific T cells  
The present invention relates generally to methods for generating, expanding, and isolating antigen-specific T cells. Compositions of antigen-specific T cells activated and expanded by the methods...
7972848 Isolation and identification of cross-reactive T cells  
Cross-reactive T cells recognizing both MBP93-105 and HHV-61-13 peptides represent a significant subset of T cells with some degree of TCR degeneracy. It appears that the recognition of the...
7968097 Identification of Hla-A2-presented T-cell epitopes derived from the oncofoetal antigen-immature laminin receptor protein and uses thereof  
The present invention relates to the immunotherapB of cancer, in particular several tumor entities including hematological malignancies. The present invention relates to tumor-associated T-helper...
7960175 Process for producing human-origin immunocompetent cell  
It is an object of the present invention to provide an immunodeficient animal capable of generating human-derived lymphoid cells, a human-derived lymphoid cell, and a method for producing a human...
7939321 TADG-15: an extracellular serine protease overexpressed in carcinomas  
The present invention provides DNA encoding a TADG-15 protein as well as a TADG-15 protein. Also provided is a vector capable of expressing the DNA of the present invention adapted for expression...
7919265 Antibody-based method for isolating Th1 and Th2 helper lymphocytes from human peripheral blood  
A negative isolation method for separately isolating preparations of Th1 and Th2 helper lymphocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells involving the use of novel combinations of monoclonal...
7910368 Method of extended culture for antigen-specific cytotoxic lymphocytes  
The present invention is a method for inducing cytotoxic T cell having an antigen-specific cytotoxic activity, a method for maintaining the cell, a method for continuously culturing the cell or a...
7901673 Induction of and maintenance of nucleic acid damage in pathogens using riboflavin and light  
A process for damaging and maintaining damage to the nucleic acids of pathogens such as white blood cells, bacteria and viruses which may be contained in blood or blood components. This process...
7901902 Methods and compositions for identifying a cellular immune response against prostate cancer  
Filamin-B peptides, compositions comprising such peptides, and methods of using such peptides to assess an immune response against such peptides are described. An immune response against the...
7892828 Method of identifying a MHC class I restricted T cell response  
Described are peptides and polypeptides derived from the MUC-1 polypeptide which are able to activate Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte (CTL) response, analogues of such peptides and polypeptides nucleotide...
7884184 Regulatory T cell epitopes, compositions and uses thereof  
The invention is directed to T cell epitopes wherein said epitopes comprises a peptide or polypeptide chain comprising at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant or variable region. The...
7867488 Use of dendritic cells (DCs) expressing interleukin 12 (IL-12)  
The present invention discloses the use of active dendritic cells (DCs) releasing interleukin 12 (IL-12) which are loaded with an antigen against a specific pathogen or a specific tumor and, due to...
7829331 Use of urea-adjuvated polypeptides for diagnosis, prophylaxis and treatment  
The invention relates to a method for infiltration of polypeptides in cells. The invention further relates to the use of the cells and urea-adjuvated polypeptides for the diagnosis, treatment or...
7816134 Method of extensive culture of antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells  
The present invention provides methods for inducing, maintaining and expanding CTL (cytotoxic T cell) having an antigen-specific cytotoxic activity at a high level, which is useful in the adoptive...
7811816 Isolated CD8 +T lymphocytes specifically cytotoxic for a disease causing target cell  
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for antigenic peptides derived from IgE molecule can be generated in vitro by stimulating resting naive CD8 T cells with IgE peptides presented by artificial...
7731953 Methods for use of TSLP and agonists and antagonists thereof  
Methods are disclosed herein for specifically inducing proliferation of CD4+ T cells. The methods are of use in treating immunodeficiencies, such as an immunodeficiency produced by infection with...
7723111 Activated dual specificity lymphocytes and their methods of use  
The present invention relates to preventive, therapeutic, and diagnostic compositions and methods employing lymphocytes having T-cell receptors and chimeric receptors. In particular, the invention...
7722862 Regulatory T cells suppress autoimmunity  
The invention provides methods for producing an autoantigen-specific regulatory T cell enriched composition, and resultant compositions and methods of use.
7718196 Rapamycin-resistant T cells and therapeutic uses thereof  
Methods for generating highly enriched Th1/Tc1 and Th2/Tc2 functions are described. In particular, the generation of these functions are attained by the addition of an immune suppression drug,...
7718356 Heteroduplex tracking assay  
A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and may be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown...
7713688 Methods and compositions for depleting specific cell populations from blood tissues  
The invention provides compositions and methods for cell separation. These reagents and techniques specifically agglutinate cells via surface antigen recognition and can be used to recover even...
7678571 Procedure for the large-scale T-lymphocytes culture in a homogeneous system  
The present invention refers to a procedure for the large-scale amplification of human lymphocytic cell lines for therapeutic use, consisting of a homogeneous culture system. The claimed invention...
7678572 Methods for preparing T-cells for cell therapy  
T-cells are generated with enhanced immunostimulatory capabilities for use in self therapy treatment protocols, by utilizing a biodegradable device with a biodegradable support that has one or more...
7575925 Cell preparations comprising cells of the T cell lineage and methods of making and using them  
The invention relates to cell preparations comprising cells of the T cell lineage, methods for preparing same, and uses of the cell preparations.
7572631 Activation and expansion of T cells  
The present invention relates generally to methods for activating and expanding cells, and more particularly, to a novel method to activate and/or stimulate cells that maximizes the expansion of...
7514537 Chimeric immunoreceptor useful in treating human gliomas  
The present invention relates to chimeric transmembrane immunoreceptors, named “zetakines,” comprised of an extracellular domain comprising a soluble receptor ligand linked to a support region cap...
7494806 Retroviral vectors expressing exogenous gene or exogenous nucleic acid sequences  
Provided are novel vectors and viral vectors capable of expressing exogenous gene or exogenous nucleic acid sequences in a target cell of interest, such as T cells, bone marrow cells, epithelial...
7491534 Methods for altering cell fate to generate T-cells specific for an antigen of interest  
The invention provides methods for altering the expression profile of a cell to convert the cell from one cell type to a desired cell type (e.g., T-cells). These reprogrammed cells may be used in a...
7476535 TRP2 isoform TRP2-6b containing HLA-A2 restricted epitopes  
The present invention relates to a new and potent tumor antigen capable of causing T cells to elicit an immune response and methods of its use in the detection, prevention, and treatment of cancer,...
7446191 DNA construct encoding CE7-specific chimeric T cell receptor  
Genetically engineered, CE7-specific redirected immune cells expressing a cell surface protein having an extracellular domain comprising a receptor which is specific for CE7, an intracellular...
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