Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 16th, 2006
Study 1: Tumor autoantigens identified on protein microarrays can break tolerance during immunotherapy.
"Cancer patients develop antitumor immune responses, both humoral and cellular, against antigens expressed by their tumors. Low-throughput antigen cloning has been used to identify a number of immunogenic tumor antigens, but this process has limited utility for diagnostics or therapeutic vaccines," according to scientists in the United States.
"A novel approach to the identification of diagnostic antigens that utilizes a combination...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-08-16)
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