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Personalized Armored TCR-Redirected T Cell Therapy for Liver/Organ Transplant with Recurrent Cancer

Hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) is notoriously difficult to manage and fatal. As a therapeutic option, adoptive cell therapy with HBV-specific TCR-redirected T cells could be employed to target and control relapses in these patients. How...

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Autores principales: Hafezi, Morteza, Tan, Anthony, Bertoletti, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34440630
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells10081861
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Sumario:Hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) is notoriously difficult to manage and fatal. As a therapeutic option, adoptive cell therapy with HBV-specific TCR-redirected T cells could be employed to target and control relapses in these patients. However, indispensable immunosuppressive medications post-transplantation can significantly hinder the optimum efficacy of such therapy in the clinic. Here we report a new class of Armored TCR T cells which are able to attack recurrent cancer cells in liver transplanted recipients, while temporarily evading immunosuppressant drugs. We believe this strategy could open up new opportunities for treating pathologies under immunosuppressant treatment.