Research progress of cultivation of cytokine induced killer cells and their application in treating hematologic malignancies / 白血病·淋巴瘤

Cytokine induced killer (CIK) cells are a new kind of cytotoxic cells,which are generated by stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) with IFN-γ,IL-2,IL-1 and anti-CD3 in vitro.These cells represent phenotype of both T cell and NK cell and have advantages of the non MHC restriction,so they have a strong ability of antitumor activity in vivo and vitro.Now,CIK cells as the main effector cells of adoptive immunotherapy have been extensively used in a variety of solid tumors such as liver cancer,lung cancer and hematological malignancies including leukemia,lymphoma,myeloma.In this article,the optimized cultivation of CIK cells as well as their most prominent clinical application in hematologic malignancies were summarized.