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Biological Factors

Studies in the area of biological factors reported from University of Yamanashi, Department of Dermatology

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 8th, 2010

Current study results from the report, 'Intradermal injections of polyarginine-containing immunogenic antigens preferentially elicit Tc1 and Th1 activation and antitumour immunity,' have been published. "Background We previously have shown that nona-arginine protein transduction domain (R9-PTD) induced efficient protein-antigen (Ag) transduction of dendritic cells (DCs) in vitro, resulting in the efficient induction of strong Ag-specific immune responses mediated by CD8+ and CD4+ T cells and in superior antitumour effects in vivo in cancer-bearing mice. Objectives The Ag-specific immune responses caused by intradermal (i.d.) injections of R9-PTD-containing protein Ags without DC...

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