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Gene Therapy
New findings from Fourth Military Medical University describe advances in gene therapy
March 3rd, 2009
Fresh data on gene therapy are presented in the report 'Knockdown of human bid gene expression enhances survival of CD8+ T cells.' According to recent research from People's Republic of China, "Tumor cells have developed immune evasion mechanisms such as considerably heterogenous FasL expression on their surface via which they could induce apoptosis of tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in the immune system. Meanwhile, the competition of normal immune cells with tumor cells results in relative growth factors shortage for growth and proliferation of nontumor cells, which improves a susceptibility to early apoptosis of CTL." "In an attempt to develop strategies...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-03)
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