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Clinically Relevant Immune Responses against Cytomegalovirus: Implications for Precision Medicine.
- Source :
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Apr2019, Vol. 20 Issue 8, p1986-1986, 1p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Immune responses to human cytomegalovirus (CMV) can be used to assess immune fitness in an individual. Further to its clinical significance in posttransplantation settings, emerging clinical and translational studies provide examples of immune correlates of protection pertaining to anti-CMV immune responses in the context of cancer or infectious diseases, e.g., tuberculosis. In this viewpoint, we provide a brief overview about CMV-directed immune reactivity and immune fitness in a clinical context and incorporate some of our own findings obtained from peripheral blood or tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) from patients with advanced cancer. Observations in patients with solid cancers whose lesions contain both CMV and tumour antigen-specific T-cell subsets are highlighted, due to a possible CMV-associated "bystander" effect in amplifying local inflammation and subsequent tumour rejection. The role of tumour-associated antibodies recognising diverse CMV-derived epitopes is also discussed in light of anti-cancer immune responses. We discuss here the use of anti-CMV immune responses as a theranostic tool—combining immunodiagnostics with a personalised therapeutic potential—to improve treatment outcomes in oncological indications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- IMMUNE response
HUMAN cytomegalovirus
TUBERCULOSIS
IMMUNOTHERAPY
INTERFERONS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16616596
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136174674
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20081986