Published in Cancer Weekly, May 24th, 2005
Study 1: Immunosurveillance can be unmasked by removal of regulatory components.
According to recent research from the United States, "We have previously observed a novel role of natural killer T (NKT) cells in negative regulation of antitumor immune responses against an immunogenic regressor tumor expressing a transfected viral antigen.
"Here," explained J.M. Park and associates, "we investigated whether hidden spontaneous antitumor immunosurveillance, in the absence of a vaccine, could be revealed by disruption of this negative regulatory pathway involving...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-05-24)
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