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Immune Checkpoint Blockade

Methods and Protocols

  • Includes cutting-edge techniques
  • Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
  • Contains key implementation advice from the experts

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1913)

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Table of contents (16 protocols)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Generating Hypothesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Double Immunohistochemistry and Digital Image Analysis

      • Pablo Moreno-Ruiz, Lina Wik Leiss, Artur Mezheyeuski, Monika Ehnman
      Pages 3-11
    3. Multispectral Fluorescence Imaging Allows for Distinctive Topographic Assessment and Subclassification of Tumor-Infiltrating and Surrounding Immune Cells

      • Claudia Wickenhauser, Daniel Bethmann, Zipei Feng, Shawn M. Jensen, Carmen Ballesteros-Merino, Chiara Massa et al.
      Pages 13-31
    4. Systems-Level Immune Monitoring by Mass Cytometry

      • Tadepally Lakshmikanth, Petter Brodin
      Pages 33-48
    5. Immune Monitoring of Cancer Patients by Multi-color Flow Cytometry

      • Shi Yong Neo, Aine O’Reilly, Yago Pico de Coaña
      Pages 49-65
    6. High-Throughput, Fast, and Sensitive Immunopeptidomics Sample Processing for Mass Spectrometry

      • Fabio Marino, Chloe Chong, Justine Michaux, Michal Bassani-Sternberg
      Pages 67-79
    7. Identification of Immune Modulatory miRNAs by miRNA Enrichment via RNA Affinity Purification

      • Uta Sandy Tretbar, Michael Friedrich, Maria-Filothei Lazaridou, Barbara Seliger
      Pages 81-101
  3. Functional Assays

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Expansion of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes from Melanoma Tumors

      • Stina Wickström, Tanja Lövgren
      Pages 105-118
    3. Establishment of Two Dimensional (2D) and Three-Dimensional (3D) Melanoma Primary Cultures as a Tool for In Vitro Drug Resistance Studies

      • Nataly Cruz Rodríguez, Johanna Lineros, Carol Stefany Rodríguez, Lina María Martínez, Josefa Antonia Rodríguez
      Pages 119-131
    4. Expansion and Determination of Antigen-Reactive T Cells by Flow Cytometry

      • Alexander Martens, Graham Pawelec, Christopher Shipp
      Pages 141-151
    5. Evaluating Antibody-Dependent Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity by Chromium Release Assay

      • Irene van der Haar Àvila, Patricia Marmol, Rolf Kiessling, Yago Pico de Coaña
      Pages 167-179
    6. Evaluating Antibody-Dependent Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity by Flow Cytometry

      • Irene van der Haar Àvila, Patricia Marmol, Jeannette Cany, Rolf Kiessling, Yago Pico de Coaña
      Pages 181-194
  4. Animal Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
    2. Analysis of Tissue-Resident Immune Cells from Mouse Skin and Lungs by Flow Cytometry

      • Felipe Galvez-Cancino, Ernesto Lopez, Alvaro Lladser
      Pages 217-222

About this book

This detailed volume describes a series of techniques that are essential for evaluating the efficacy of new checkpoint blockade therapies as well as understanding the mechanisms behind the therapies that have already been approved. Beginning with a section on describing the tumor microenvironment and evaluating the immune system at a systemic level, the book continues by covering functional assays that provide answers to questions that may be raised after studying the immune system and its responses to immunotherapies, as well as the use of animal models in this research. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. 

Authoritative and practical, Immune Checkpoint Blockade: Methods and Protocols serves to aid researchers in furthering our understanding of checkpoint blockage as well as the study of tumor immunology and the development of new immunotherapies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Yago Pico de Coaña

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Immune Checkpoint Blockade

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols

  • Editors: Yago Pico de Coaña

  • Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8979-9

  • Publisher: Humana New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Protocols

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8978-2Published: 22 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-8979-9Published: 21 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 1064-3745

  • Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 225

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Immunology

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eBook USD 129.00
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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