VISTA is an inhibitory immune checkpoint that is increased after ipilimumab therapy in patients with prostate cancer.
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| Abstract | :  To date, anti-CTLA-4 (ipilimumab) or anti-PD-1 (nivolumab) monotherapy has not been demonstrated to be of substantial clinical benefit in patients with prostate cancer. To identify additional immune-inhibitory pathways in the prostate-tumor microenvironment, we evaluated untreated and ipilimumab-treated tumors from patients in a presurgical clinical trial. Levels of the PD-L1 and VISTA inhibitory molecules increased on independent subsets of macrophages in treated tumors. Our data suggest that VISTA represents another compensatory inhibitory pathway in prostate tumors after ipilimumab therapy. | 
| Year of Publication | :  2017 | 
| Journal | :  Nature medicine | 
| Volume | :  23 | 
| Issue | :  5 | 
| Number of Pages | :  551-555 | 
| ISSN Number | :  1078-8956 | 
| URL | :  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.4308 | 
| DOI | :  10.1038/nm.4308 | 
| Short Title | :  Nat Med | 
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