Healthy functional platelets are mass produced. A method for producing platelets, comprising: (1) a culture step of culturing megakaryocytes in a platelet producing medium in the presence of mechanical stress and platelet production promoting factors including MIF, NRDc, IGFBP2, TSP-1, PAI-1, and CCL5, and (2) a harvest step of harvesting the platelets obtained by the culture step; wherein the culture step comprises: (a) a step of promoting a release of the platelet production promoting factors from megakaryocytes by mechanical stress; and/or (b) a step of externally adding platelet production promoting factors including MIF, NRDc, and IGFBP2.

The present invention provides KOC1-derived epitope peptides having the ability to induce cytotoxic T cells. The present invention further provides polynucleotides encoding the peptides, antigen-presenting cells presenting the peptides, and cytotoxic T cells targeting the peptides, as well as methods of inducing the antigen-presenting cells or CTLs. The present invention also provides compositions and pharmaceutical compositions containing them as an active ingredient. Further, the present invention provides methods of treating and/or preventing cancer, and/or preventing postoperative recurrence thereof, using the peptides, polynucleotides, antigen-presenting cells, cytotoxic T cells or pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention. Methods of inducing an immune response against cancer are also provided.

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing steady-state operational parameters for each of a plurality of network nodes of the multi-hop wireless network recorded during a period of steady-state operation, identifying a plurality of first network nodes and a plurality of second network nodes, wherein each of the first network nodes is determined to need a planned reset, and wherein each of the second network nodes previously established one or more wireless connections with one or more of the first network nodes, respectively, adjusting operational settings of each of the second network nodes to establish one or more temporary wireless connections between one or more pairs of second networks nodes, respectively, resetting each of the first network nodes, adjusting operational settings of each of the second network nodes based on the steady-state operational parameters to reestablish the one or more previously established wireless connections with the first network nodes.

The present invention provides KOC1-derived epitope peptides having the ability to induce cytotoxic T cells. The present invention further provides polynucleotides encoding the peptides, antigen-presenting cells presenting the peptides, and cytotoxic T cells targeting the peptides, as well as methods of inducing the antigen-presenting cells or CTLs. The present invention also provides compositions and pharmaceutical compositions containing them as an active ingredient. Further, the present invention provides methods of treating and/or preventing cancer, and/or preventing postoperative recurrence thereof, using the peptides, polynucleotides, antigen-presenting cells, cytotoxic T cells or pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention. Methods of inducing an immune response against cancer are also provided.

The present description relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present description relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present description further relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T-cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

The present invention provides HLA-DR (MHC class II) binding peptides derived from the ovarian/breast cancer associated antigens, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER-2/neu), Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA), Insulin Growth Factor Binding Protein 2 (IGFBP-2), and Cyclin D1. The immunogenic peptides can be used in cancer vaccines.

In one embodiment, one or more computing systems of a multi-hop wireless network may access operational parameters for network nodes of the multi-hop wireless network, wherein the multi-hop wireless network comprises a plurality of network nodes, wherein each network node of the plurality of network nodes previously established one or more wireless connections with one or more corresponding network nodes, respectively, and wherein the operational parameters are based on operating data recorded during a period of steady-state operation of the multi-hop wireless network. The one or more computing systems may identify one or more responder nodes from the plurality of network nodes, wherein, for each identified responder node, one or more of the previously established wireless connections has been reset. The one or more computing systems may adjust operational settings for each responder node based on the accessed operational parameters.

The present invention provides a method for treating a human patient with a pathology by administering to the subject an effective amount of an agent selected from the group of: native full-length CCN3 proteins; analog CCN3 full-length proteins with native cysteine residues substituted by a replacement amino acid; CCNp native peptide fragments having from about 12 to about 20 amino acids; analog CCNp peptide fragments with native cysteine residues substituted with a replacement amino acid; and combinations thereof.

Methods and compositions involving synthetic immodulin peptides and helper molecules. The peptides exhibit new and surprising biological activities, such as co-stimulation of macrophage and myogenic cell differentiation markers. Methods are provided N by which peptide is contacted with one or more myeloid precursor cell populations, thereby increasing the abundance of CD169+, CCL22+, Clec4A, Clec9a+, and Clec 12a+ monocyte lineages which play important roles in cross presentation, post-apoptotic clearance, autoimmunity, and programmatic tissue regeneration, notably in contexts of tissue stress, insult and degeneration. The disclosed methods and compositions enable concurrent regeneration of diverse cellular elements in tissue where collaborating myeloid and non-myeloid lineages are located together in a living tissue following the contacting steps. Furthermore, the peptides of the invention can be delivered with inherently specific in vivo targeting, achieved through complexation to holotransferrin and/or size-specific glycosaminoglycans (e.g. high-molecular- weight hyaluronan) so as to discriminate between target environments in vivo or ex vivo.

The present description relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present description relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present description further relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T-cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.