As neuroscientists, we are taught that the brain is immune privileged and thus unlikely to be affected by the peripheral immune system. Accordingly, initial results demonstrating the effectiveness of beta-amyloid (Abeta) immunotherapy in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were viewed with considerable surprise and some skepticism. Many groups have since demonstrated efficacy with Abeta im...

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW IgE-mediated allergy can be treated by subcutaneous allergen-specific immunotherapy (SCIT). However, the percentage of allergic patients undergoing SCIT is low, mainly due to the long duration of the therapy and the risk of severe systemic allergic reactions associated with the allergen administration. Typically, SCIT requires dozens of subcutaneous allergen injections that st...

More than 900 scientists around the world visited the 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) in Mainz, Germany from 6–8 May, 2014. Recent advancements in various specific fields of cancer immunotherapy were discussed in Europe`s largest meeting of this kind under the motto “Next Waves in Cancer Immunotherapy,” the highlights of which are summarized in this meetin...

This is a review of the author's experience with Sublingual Immunotherapy in a private office setting. Sublingual Immunotherapy should be considered by any allergy practitioner as a useful tool. Sublingual Immunotherapy is safe while at the same time it is effective. It enables the practitioner to treat asthmatics and young children without the concerns implicit with allergy injections.

The 11th Annual Meeting of Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) welcomed more than 700 scientists around the world to Mainz, Germany and continued to be the largest immunotherapy meeting in Europe. Renowned speakers from various fields of cancer immunotherapy gave lectures under CIMT2013's tag: "Advancing targeted therapies" the highlights of which are summarized in this meeting report.

Immunotherapy has been highlighted because we have obtained much evidence, which includes theoretical backborn as well as favorable results from clinical trials. As immunotherapy gives an apparently different cytotoxic mechanism and a little adverse event, the promising results are getting a lot of attention. In this article, cancer immunotherapy for gliomas is reviewed thoroughly from the lite...

The immune system is able to specifically target antigen-expressing cancer cells. The promise of immunotherapy was to eliminate cancer cells without harming normal tissue and, therefore, with no or very few side effects. Immunotherapy approaches have, for several decades, been tested against several tumours, most often against malignant melanoma. However, although detectable immune responses ha...

Preclinical models have demonstrated the efficacy of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-secreting cancer immunotherapies (GVAX platform) accompanied by immunotherapy-primed lymphocytes after autologous stem cell transplantation in hematologic malignancies. We conducted a phase 2 study of this combination in adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Immunotherapy consisted of aut...

Immunotherapy for colorectal cancer has been under investigation for many years. Many recent scientific advances contribute to the success of cancer immunotherapy, including our better understanding of anti-tumor immune response, tolerance and regulation, and the advent of newer therapies including agonist antibodies to the co-stimulatory molecules targeting T cells. Immunotherapy may represent...