Abstract
Several clinical trials suggested that one promising immunotherapeutic approach is cancer vaccines, containing novel adjuvants capable of stimulating innate immunity to result in breakage of immunotolerance in the tumor microenvironment and development of potent antitumor immune responses. In particular, agonists for TLR and STING are actively investigated adjuvants due to their high potential for induction of antitumor immune responses. Moreover, recent efforts to improve the efficacy of TLR9 agonist as adjuvants by coupling with delivery molecules and nanoparticle and/or by mixing with other innate immune stimuli such as STING agonists revealed novel cancer vaccine adjuvants with high efficacy. In this review, we introduce recent advances in the development of novel adjuvants for cancer immunotherapy.
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Temizoz, B., Kuroda, E., Kobiyama, K., Aoshi, T., Ishii, K.J. (2016). Novel Adjuvants. In: Yamaguchi, Y. (eds) Immunotherapy of Cancer. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55031-0_17
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