this study was conducted to optimize a highly efficient mrna transfection into dendritic cells (dc) derived from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc) patients. applying an electroporation technique, in vitro synthesized green fluorescent protein (gfp) mrna was transfected as an indicator into the dcs derived from a healthy donor. flow cytometry revealed 84.9% transfection efficiency for dc...

Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of the rhesus macaque homolog for human DC-SIGN, a dendritic cell-specific C-type lectin. mac-DC-SIGN is 92% identical to hu-DC-SIGN. mac-DC-SIGN preserves the virus transmission function of hu-DC-SIGN, capturing and efficiently transducing simian and human immunodeficiency virus to target CD4(+) T cells. Surprisingly, however, mac-DC-SIGN pl...

Background: During antigen capture and processing, mature dendritic cells (DC) express large amounts of peptide-MHC complexes and accessory molecules on their surface. DC are antigen-presenting cells that have an important role in tolerance and autoimmunity. The transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-β1) cytokine has a regulatory role on the immune and non-immune cells. The aim of this study is ...

dendritic cells (dcs) induce pathogen-specific t cell responses. we comprehensively studied the effects of addition of maturation stimulus, fibroblasts (fibroblast conditioned medium), pha activated t cells (t cell conditioned medium), and mixture of fibroblast & pha activated t cells (fcm-tccm) conditioned media on maturation of dcs. monocytes were cultured with gm-csf and il-4 for five da...

The present study explored the effects of disodium cantharidinate (DC) on the peripheral blood-derived dendritic cells of patients with bladder carcinoma. The peripheral blood mononuclear cells from the 15 cases of urinary bladder carcinoma of middle and advanced stage were separated, and dendritic cells were prepared. The morphological changes of dendritic cells were observed. Flow cytometry w...

This study was conducted to optimize a highly efficient mRNA transfection into dendritic cells (DC) derived from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients. Applying an electroporation technique, in vitro synthesized Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) mRNA was transfected as an indicator into the DCs derived from a healthy donor. Flow cytometry revealed 84.9% transfection efficiency for DC...

background: during antigen capture and processing, mature dendritic cells (dc) express large amounts of peptide-mhc complexes and accessory molecules on their surface. dc are antigen-presenting cells that have an important role in tolerance and autoimmunity. the transforming growth factor-beta1 (tgf-β1) cytokine has a regulatory role on the immune and non-immune cells. the aim of this study is ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are effector cells of the innate immune system that exert direct cytotoxic functions. Ubiquitously-expressed toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been recognized as one of the major components promoting dendritic cell (DC) maturation, which may induce polarized immune responses beneficial to cancer immunotherapy. TLR-activated NK cells and DCs are prerequisite for robust ac...

background: fusion of dendritic cells (dcs) with melanoma cells could reinforce the antigenicity of tumors as a strategy for the treatment of malignant melanoma. however, the insufficient quantity of dcs and the low fusion efficiency limits the development of such approach. objective: to define the dosage of the stimulating factors as well as the induction condition for the optimal dcs preparat...