Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Cytomembrane nanovaccines show therapeutic effects by mimicking tumor cells and antigen presenting cells

  • Wen-Long Liu,
  • Mei-Zhen Zou,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Jin-Yue Zeng,
  • Xue Li,
  • Wu-Yang Yu,
  • Chu-Xin Li,
  • Jing-Jie Ye,
  • Wen Song,
  • Jun Feng,
  • Xian-Zheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11157-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cancer vaccines often fail to generate clinically relevant effects. Here, the authors generate a nanosized cytomembrane vaccine based on fusion between dendritic cells and cancer cells, and show them to activate anti-tumor immune responses via their antigen presenting and T-cell activating functions.