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214 Index<br />

[Peptide vaccines]<br />

investigational, 113–116<br />

optimization of, 117–122<br />

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells<br />

(PBMC)<br />

used in ELISPOT assay, 194<br />

used in tetramer analysis, 193<br />

Peripheral effector (PE), cells, 163<br />

Peripheral memory (PM), cells, 123<br />

Personalized cancer vaccines, 31, 32<br />

characteristics of, 72<br />

clinical data in, 71–74<br />

examples of clinical activity in patients,<br />

38–39<br />

examples of preclinical activity in<br />

rodents treated with, 34–36<br />

host immune system, 71<br />

methods of, 33–38<br />

preclinical application of, 40–45<br />

tumor cells in, 70–71<br />

PGE2, 87<br />

<strong>Ph</strong>armacodynamic (PD) biomarkers,<br />

152, 171<br />

<strong>Ph</strong>enotypic markers, 195<br />

Plasmid vectors, 132–135, 169, 170.<br />

See also DNA vaccines<br />

infusion into LNs, 170–171<br />

PM. See Peripheral memory (PM)<br />

Polyepitope strings, 137<br />

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), 187.<br />

See also Reverse transcription<br />

polymerase chain reaction<br />

(RT-PCR)<br />

Polyvalent vaccines, tumor cells as, 57<br />

Poxviruses. See Recombinant viral vectors<br />

Preclinical models<br />

of cancer immunotherapy, 76–77<br />

limitations of, 32<br />

outcomes in human trials, 39–40<br />

predictive value of, 32–38<br />

recent trends in, 40–45<br />

spontaneous tumors, 31, 33<br />

of drugs development, 152, 154<br />

use of humanized investigational<br />

drugs in, 156<br />

vs. clinical models, 155<br />

Prime-boost strategies, 137–141<br />

Pro2-containing peptides, 6<br />

Progression- free survival (PFS), 74<br />

Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), 74<br />

Proteases, 2<br />

Proteasomes, 136<br />

conversion of, 3<br />

DC, 19<br />

differential expression of, 18<br />

inhibitors of, 13<br />

intermediate subunits of, 2–3<br />

in protein degradation, 2–4<br />

size of peptides emerging from, 5<br />

standard<br />

catalytic subunits of, 2<br />

enzymatic activity of, 4<br />

expression, 3<br />

Protein degradation, proteasomes in, 2–4<br />

Provenge, 74<br />

PSMA, detection of, 183, 184<br />

Qdots. See Quantum dots (Qdots)<br />

Quantum dots (Qdots), 188–189. See also<br />

Fluorophores<br />

Rabbit papillomavirus, cottontail, 61<br />

Radiotherapy, 55<br />

Reagents, for detection of MHC,<br />

188, 190<br />

Receptor distribution, on cell<br />

subsets, 156<br />

Recombinant DNA vectors, 169<br />

Recombinant protein immunization, 137<br />

Recombinant viral vectors, 137–138<br />

Recurrence-free survival (RFS)<br />

in cancer patients, 58<br />

vaccine for, 73<br />

Regulator of G-protein signaling 5<br />

(RGS5), 111<br />

Regulatory T cells, 121, 160. See also<br />

T cells<br />

Renal cancers, treatment of, 57<br />

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC ), 73<br />

patients with nonmetastatic, 74<br />

Reniale, 73–74<br />

Response monitoring, in cancer drug<br />

development. See Immune<br />

response monitoring

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