Treatment for Mice's Lupus

We have talked before about CAR-T cells and adoptive cell transfer. We expect this type of immunotherapy to be a major tool in the clinic for a wide range of malignencies. Nevertheless, the current scope of this therapy is limited to cancer. There is potential to treat several other types of diseases with the CAR-T technology, like infectious or autoimmune diseases.

Recently, Rita Kansal, PhD, from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and colleagues utilized the CAR-T cell approach to treat a type of Lupus in mice. The results, albeit preliminary, were very promising. This encourages the advancement of research to test CAR-T cells against diseases besides cancer.

There is still room for CAR-T cells to deliver their full potential, this is one of the advancements being made towards this goal. Here´s de link for a webinar brought to you by Science and the AAAS. The topic will be the mechanisms that can be exploited to bring forth this therapy. If you are interested in this topic and want to explore where these therapies are heading this webinar will be very helpful.

Webinar: http://www.sciencemag.org/custom-publishing/webinars/deciphering-car-t-cells-exploring-functional-mechanisms-drive-next
Article cited: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/910225