Increasing the efficacy of antitumor glioma vaccines by photodynamic therapy and local injection of allogeneic glioma cells

Catherine E. Christie M.D.; Qian Peng M.D.; Steen J. Madsen III; Francisco A. Uzal; Henry Hirschberg M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.2213569

9 March 2016 Increasing the efficacy of antitumor glioma vaccines by photodynamic therapy and local injection of allogeneic glioma cells

Catherine E. Christie M.D., Qian Peng M.D., Steen J. Madsen III, Francisco A. Uzal, Henry Hirschberg M.D.

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Proceedings Volume 9690, Clinical and Translational Neurophotonics; Neural Imaging and Sensing; and Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation; 96900D (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213569
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Immunotherapy of brain tumors involves the stimulation of an antitumor immune response. This type of therapy can be targeted specifically to tumor cells thus sparing surrounding normal brain. Due to the presence of the blood-brain barrier, the brain is relatively isolated from the systemic circulation and, as such, the initiation of significant immune responses is more limited than other types of cancers. The purpose of this study was to show that the efficacy of tumor primed antigen presenting macrophage vaccines could be increased by: (1) PDT of the priming tumor cells, and (2) injection of allogeneic glioma cells directly into brain tumors. Experiments were conducted in an in vivo brain tumor model using Fisher rats and BT₄C (allogeneic) and F98 (syngeneic) glioma cells. Preliminary results showed that vaccination alone had significantly less inhibitory effect on F98 tumor growth compared to the combination of vaccination and allogeneic cell (BT₄C) injection.

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Catherine E. Christie M.D., Qian Peng M.D., Steen J. Madsen III, Francisco A. Uzal, and Henry Hirschberg M.D. "Increasing the efficacy of antitumor glioma vaccines by photodynamic therapy and local injection of allogeneic glioma cells", Proc. SPIE 9690, Clinical and Translational Neurophotonics; Neural Imaging and Sensing; and Optogenetics and Optical Manipulation, 96900D (9 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213569

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