Vaccines to Breast Cancer Based on p53 Mutants

Abstract

The aim of this proposal is to test vaccines expressing mouse mutant or wild-type p53 for induction of protective immunity against challenge with tumor cell lines expressing either mutant or high levels of wild-type p53. The long term goal is to develop an efficacious vaccine with broad applicability for the treatment of human breast cancer patients. Our studies to date show that vaccinia virus recombinants expressing full-length wild-type p53 provide up to 70% protection to one of the model tumor cell lines under investigation. Vaccine efficacy can be improved by using mouse IL-l2 as an adjuvant.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA337557

Entities

People

  • Hildegund C. Ertl

Organizations

  • Wistar Institute

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Breast Cancer
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Physiological Processes
  • Cells
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Confocal Microscopy
  • Immunity
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Lymphocytes
  • Neoplasms
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Tumor Cell Line
  • Vaccines
  • Viruses

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Oncology and Biomarker-Based Cancer Detection.

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biotechnology - Cancer Biotech