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CTL peptide and VSSP eradicates established HPV E7-expressing tumors

Published in Health Insurance Week, February 26th, 2006

Immunotherapy with CTL peptide and VSSP eradicated established human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 E7-expressing tumors.

According to recent research from Cuba, "Peptide-based vaccines aimed at the induction of effective T-cell responses against established tumors have not been successful in clinic and require the use of new adjuvants."

"One of those is a new adjuvant in which gangliosides are incorporated into the outer membrane protein complex of Neisseria meningitidis to form very small size proteoliposomes (VSSP)," said Isis Torrens and collaborators at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology and Center of Molecular Immunology...

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