Khatwani NK, Andrews KJ, Pillai AB. Ex Vivo Expansion of Th2-Polarizing Immunotherapeutic iNKT Cells from Human Peripheral Blood.
Methods Mol Biol 2021;
2388:139-148. [PMID:
34524669 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-0716-1775-5_13]
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Abstract
iNKT cells, classified as innate lymphocytes with invariant TCRs, have been highlighted as a putative, "off-the-shelf" cellular immunotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant diseases. However, their paucity in human blood limits their immunotherapeutic applications. Herein we describe a rigorously optimized 21-day ex vivo expansion method to achieve log-fold increases in immunotherapeutic human iNKT cells.
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