Choice of activation protocol impacts the yield and quality of CAR T cell product, particularly with older individuals

Palak H Mehta, Gemma S Trollope, Patrick Leung, Shivali Savita Chinni, Anna Iasinskaia, Aaron J Harrison, Hannah Hughes‐Parry, Misty R Jenkins, Michael H Kershaw, Anthony Jaworowski, Clare Y Slaney, Rachel M Koldej, David S Ritchie, Kylie M Quinn · 2024

Read Choice of activation protocol impacts the yield and quality of CAR T cell product, particularly with older individuals by Palak H Mehta, Gemma S Trollope, Patrick Leung, Shivali Savita Chinni, Anna Iasinskaia, Aaron J Harrison, Hannah Hughes‐Parry, Misty R Jenkins, Michael H Kershaw, Anthony Jaworowski, Clare Y Slaney, Rachel M Koldej, David S Ritchie, Kylie M Quinn (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11605362.txt.

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Palak Mehta and a large team of co-authors study how the way T cells are switched on affects a cell therapy for cancer. Their paper is from two thousand twenty-four. In this therapy, a patient's own T cells are reprogrammed in the lab to hunt cancer. Younger, less worn-out cells work better in patients, but older donors start with more worn-out cells.

The team made the therapy from blood of young and older healthy donors, using two switching methods. Older samples gave fewer, more worn-out cells under both methods. One method, using paired antibody complexes, made the age gap worse. A surface marker on the starting cells tracked how worn out the final product would be. The starting mix mattered even more than the marker.

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CREATORPalak H Mehta, Gemma S Trollope, Patrick Leung, Shivali Savita Chinni, Anna Iasinskaia, Aaron J Harrison, Hannah Hughes‐Parry, Misty R Jenkins, Michael H Kershaw, Anthony Jaworowski, Clare Y Slaney, Rachel M Koldej, David S Ritchie, Kylie M Quinn
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE40 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11605362

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