Analyzing T Cell Responses: How to Analyze Cellular Immune Responses Against Tumor Associated Antigens (Hardcover, 2005)

Chapter 1: Monitoring Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses; Dirk Nagorsen, Francesco M. Marincola Chapter 2: Tumor Associated Antigens; Paul F. Robbins Chapter 3: Immune Escape, Tumor induced immune suppression and immune escape: Mechanisms and Possible Solutions; Theresa L. Whiteside, Michael Campoli, Soldano Ferrone Chapter 4: Virus Specific T-Cell Responses; Victor Appay Chapter 5: Cytotoxicity Assays Killer Lymphocytes in Cancer; Gideon Berke & William R. Clark Chapter 6: Monitoring T Cell Proliferation; Philip D. Hodgkin, Edwin D. Hawkins, Jhaguaral Hasbold, Amanda V. Gett, Elissa K. Deenick, Hilary F. Todd & Mirja Hommel Chapter 7: Elispot Assay, Assessment of Cellular Immune Responses to Anti-Cancer Vaccines; Theresa L. Whiteside Chapter 8: Modified Elispot, Modifications of the Elispot Assay for T Cell Monitoring in Cancer Vaccine Trials; Anatoli Malyguine Chapter 9: Intracellular Cytokine Staining, Cytokine flow cytometry for characterization of tumor-specific T cell responses; Carmen Scheibenbogen, Anne Letsch, Anne Marie Asemissen, Alexander Schmittel, Eckhard Thiel & Ulrich Keilholz Chapter 10: Cytometric Cytokine Secretion Assay, Detection and Isolation of Antigen-Specific T Cells; Mario Assenmacher Chapter 11: Peptide/MHC Tetramer Analysis; Peter P. Lee & Francesco M. Marincola Chapter 12: In Situ MHC Tetramer Staining, In Situ Tetramers; Pamela J. Skinner Chapter 13: MHC-IG Dimeric Molecules, Dimers - MHC-Ig dimeric molecules for the analysis of antigen-specific T cell responses; Tim F. Greten & Firouzeh Korangy Chapter 14: TCR Analyses, T-cell receptor CDR3 analysis: Molecular fingerprinting of the T-cell receptor repertoire; Markus J. Maeurer Chapter 15: Peptide/HLA-GFP Complexes, Detection of Antigen-Specific T Cells by Acquisition of Peptide/Hla-Gfp Complexes; Utano Tomaru, Yoshihisa Yamano & Steven Jacobson Chapter 16: QRT-PCR, Quantitative RT-PCR for the Analysis of T cell Responses in Immunized Cancer Patients; Udai S. Kammula Chapter 17: Microarrays, Gene expression profiling approaches for the monitoring of anti-cancer immune responses; Ena Wang Concluding Remarks; Dirk Nagorsen & Francesco M. Marincola