Publisher's Synopsis
Immuno-oncology and immunotherapy, Part C, Volume 191 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Extraction and quantification of histones from human cells, Expression and characterization of Phosphatidylserine-targeting antibodies for biochemical and therapeutic applications, ILC differentiation from HSCs in vitro, Methods to expand human Treg cells and assay their function, Monitoring rapid activation of human gamma/delta T cells by multicolor flow cytometry, Methods to induce T cell exhaustion in vitro, Ex vivo assessment of human neutrophil motility and migration, and much more.
Additional chapters focus on Flow cytometry-based monitoring of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in the peripheral blood of patients with solid tumors, Deciphering human blood and tumor neutrophil heterogeneity: Methods for isolation and assessing suppression of T-cell proliferation, Splenocyte anticancer citotoxicity assessment after prophylactic vaccination or drug treatment of tumor-bearing mice, Therapeutic treatment of tumor-bearing mice with drug-killed cancer cells: a method to confirm immunogenic cell death and assess its therapeutic effectiveness, and much more.
