Published in Hematology Week, September 11th, 2006
Study 1: Heat shock fusion protein induces both specific and nonspecific antitumor immunity.
"Mucin 1 (MUC1) is a tumor antigen, and the most important epitopes that can induce cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) reside in the variable-number tandem repeats (VNTR).
"Heat shock protein (HSP) complexes isolated from tumors have been shown to induce specific antitumor immunity. HSP alone can also induce nonspecific immunity," researchers in People's Republic of China report.
According to the authors, "To explore...
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Source: Hematology Week (2006-09-11)
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