Trends in immunotherapy approach for oral melanoma (OM) in dog

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Tanawadee Mekvimol
Supawadee Piratae

Abstract

Oral melanoma (OM) in dog is occurred by dramatically increasing of melanocytes, the melanin producing cells, where located in the epidermis, dermis, mucous membrane, and ocular areas. Mostly of OM are found in the oral cavity of dogs and frequently spreads to the adjacent organs, especially mandible. OM often found in old dogs 8-11 years old or black hair and black skin types. The OM therapeutic approaches include surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. However, recent advanced molecular knowledge has altered and focused on new targeted therapy using stimulating antibodies such as immunotherapy. Immunotherapy by vaccination with tyrosinase DNA vaccine is a new treatment that introduces cancer liked antigen into dog’s cell to stimulate dog’s immune system for potentially able to destroy cancer cells. Moreover, antibodies against programmed death 1 (PD-1) and PD-ligand 1 (PD-L1) have been developed to block PD-1/PD-L1 and stimulate T cell activity which caused T cell to secrete cytokines or chemokines. This review focuses on the novel therapy treatment of OM by using specific antibodies that has been verified to be benefit to patients in the later stages of cancer with pulmonary metastasis.

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