Dendritic Cells

Is there a relationship between dendritic cells and oncothermia?

The production of dendritic cells can be done in the laboratory, in the way we analyzed above. However, one of the ways in which oncothermia therapeutically works is the production of specialized dendritic cells.

How is this achieved?

Oncothermia results in the apoptosis of cancer cells, that is, the planned cell death, which, as is well known, does not normally occur in cancer cells. The falling cells are converted into apoptotic bodies, that is, fragments of cancer cells that have stopped living.

The apoptotic bodies are phagocytosed by precursor immune cells, which are thus transformed into mature dendritic cells, having meanwhile processed and reorganized the antigenic proteins (DAMPs) into peptides, which then externalize on the cellular surface of the system, where they bind to proteins. web compatibility. This is followed by the production of cytotoxic T-lymphocytes, just as with exogenous administration of dendritic cells (see above).

- What are dendritic cells?
- After all, how are cancer cells killed?
- What is the treatment with dendritic cells (DK)?