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Immunotherapy Flashcards

1
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What 4 therapy types are used

A

Vaccines
Immunomodulatory drugs
Biologics
Cell therapies

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2
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What’s the difference between prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines

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Therapeutic given after eg after cancer developed

Prophylactic is preventative

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3
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Give a therapeutic vaccine for advanced melanoma

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T-VEC (manipulated hsv)

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4
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Who would need immunosuppressant therapy

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Autoimmune / allergy syndromes
Or transplant patients

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5
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Which responses do vaccines induce

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Both t and b cells

T cells don’t prevent the disease but prevent progression

B cells can neutralise before infection

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6
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What is given often with vaccines

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Adjuvants

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7
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Why would therapeutic be less effective

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Underlying inflammation/ evasion which stops natural and vaccine induced immunity still present

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8
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What vaccine is there for prostate cancer which is effectively a cell therapy and what does it do

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Provenge
Draw blood from patient
Stimulate apc like dc with pap antigen from tumour cells
Injected back
T cell stimulation

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9
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Why is this effective possibly in cancers sometimes

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Downreg of MHC is common

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10
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What is the MHC restriction

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The fact T cells only recognise ag on MHC

And MHC are highly specific and polymorphic / individuals

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11
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What is done to counteract this

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Multiepitope vaccines

Pre clinical screening for effective MHC presentation of candidate peptides

Conjugate vaccines to stimulate T cells aswell as b cells

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12
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Which vaccine type is more common for chronic infections

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Prophylactic

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13
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Why

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Because it reduces chance of Comorbidites like immunodeficiency and cancer

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14
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Why is vaccination limited

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Still not for many serious viruses like hiv which develops cancer later and immunodeficiency

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What sort of things can be immunostimulant drugs (ikmunomodulators)

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Cytokines
Prr activators
Chemokines

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16
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Which type of immuno mod are still in clinical trials

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Ido inhibitors

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17
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What is imiquimod immunostimulant

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Artificial dsrna

Stimulates tlr 7/8

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18
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Which cytokine often used for anti cancer as it’s stimulant

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Ifna

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19
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What does lenalidomide (immuno mod)work best with for non Hodgkin lymphoma (

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Rituximab (anti cd20)

20
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What is tacrolimus

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An immunosuppressant cdrug

21
Q

How does it stop T cell proliferation

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Through calcineurin blocking

22
Q

Why cytokines is used to be suppressant for MS maybe because it induces ido

A

Ifnb

23
Q

Why would jak inhibitors be immunosuppressant

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Cytokines signal through jak-stat pathway for effects

24
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What’s the diff between chimeric and humanised mab

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Chimeric is half and half eg where whole variable region is mouse but constant is human

Humanised is all human except the CDR from immunised mice

25
Q

Explain how they are made

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Form hybridomas where immunised b cells and myeloma cells come together
Myeloma cells make the b cells immortalised so keep divining and producing mab clones

Hybridomas are cultured and purified mab

26
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What 3 types of ma. are there

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Cytoloyric

Blocking

Agonist

27
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What are fusion proteins-fc

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They are proteins fused to the fc region of antibodies so are delivered specifically eg to arthritic joints

28
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Give 2 examples of fusion proteins

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Ctla4-igg1 : Ctla4 suppresses T cell activity in arthritis

Tnfrecetor- igg1 : blocks TNFa signalling

29
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What is an agonist example

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Cd40 for T cell activation

30
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Which cytolytic mab for ra are suggested to cause long term suppression after treatment = remission?

A

Cd20 and cd52 since they directly impact the haemotpietic lineage

31
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How are they cytolytic eg cd20 to b non Hodgkin cells

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They have a igg1 human fc portion which triggers complement activation by c1q, and also binds fcyR on NK cells

= mac and NK fell killing

32
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Give a cancer specific mab treatment

A

Herceptin for Her2 overexpression

33
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What is immunoradiotherapy

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Mab conjugated with radioactive product

Targets cancer cells specifically

34
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What can reg T cell therapy be used for

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T1d or gvHD after a bm transplant eg if someone has leukemia

35
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What are the 2 dc therapies

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Regulatory dc therapy eg for arthritis

Provenge

36
Q

Give some immune checkpoint blockers for cancer

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Ctla4, anti pd 1/l1 , IDO (still clinical trial)

37
Q

Which adjuvant can be used for cancer

A

PI:C

38
Q

Which vaccine found increased stimulation of CTL recruitment via chemokines with pi:c

A

Bcg used for bladder cancer

39
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What is pi:c

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Artificial Dsrna stimulating tlr3

40
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What do IDO do

A

Catabolise tryptophan which blocks innate and adaptive responses

41
Q

What toxic metabolite does this form

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Kyn

42
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What could inducers be used for in future

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Transplant or other things

43
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What things do kyn toxic metabolites do to suppress immunity by t cells

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Suppress effector T cells eg via anergy, autophagy, cell cycle arrest

44
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How do they impact NK and cd8

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Cytotoxic to them

45
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What Innate receptor does ido downreg

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NK recetor

46
Q

What is the main issues with immunotherapy

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Need long term

Remission rates are quite low

Adverse side effects eg neurotoxicity

Expensive eg mabs

47
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What sort of side effects can pd1 for example have

A

Cardio toxicity and neurotoxicity

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