'Off-the-shelf'allogeneic CAR T cells: development and challenges

S Depil, P Duchateau, SA Grupp, G Mufti… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have changed the therapeutic
landscape in haematological malignancies. Nevertheless, the use of allogeneic CAR T cells …

Cancer and aging: two tightly interconnected biological processes

L Berben, G Floris, H Wildiers, S Hatse - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As life expectancy is increasing, the older population is rapidly growing.
However, older patients with cancer are still underrepresented in clinical trials, making …

SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells exhibit phenotypic features of helper function, lack of terminal differentiation, and high proliferation potential

J Neidleman, X Luo, J Frouard, G Xie, G Gill… - Cell Reports …, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Convalescing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients mount robust T cell
responses against SARS-CoV-2, suggesting an important role of T cells in viral clearance …

The full spectrum of human naive T cells

T van den Broek, JAM Borghans… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Naive T cells have long been regarded as a developmentally synchronized and fairly
homogeneous and quiescent cell population, the size of which depends on age, thymic …

Through ageing, and beyond: gut microbiota and inflammatory status in seniors and centenarians

E Biagi, L Nylund, M Candela, R Ostan, L Bucci, E Pini… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Age-related physiological changes in the gastrointestinal tract, as well as
modifications in lifestyle, nutritional behaviour, and functionality of the host immune system …

The immune system and aging: a review

C Castelo-Branco, I Soveral - Gynecological Endocrinology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of immunosenescence reflects age-related changes in immune responses,
both cellular and serological, affecting the process of generating specific responses to …

Allogeneic CAR cell therapy—more than a pipe dream

KJ Caldwell, S Gottschalk, AC Talleur - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cellular immunotherapy using immune cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown promise, particularly for the treatment of hematological malignancies. To …

The immunobiology of CD27 and OX40 and their potential as targets for cancer immunotherapy

SL Buchan, A Rogel… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
In recent years, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) able to reinvigorate antitumor T-cell immunity
have heralded a paradigm shift in cancer treatment. The most high profile of these mAbs …

Markers of T cell senescence in humans

W Xu, A Larbi - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Many countries are facing the aging of their population, and many more will face a similar
obstacle in the near future, which could be a burden to many healthcare systems. Increased …

Hallmarks of the aging T‐cell system

H Zhang, CM Weyand, JJ Goronzy - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive immune system has the enormous challenge to protect the host through the
generation and differentiation of pathogen‐specific short‐lived effector T cells while in …