Melanoma
Researchers' data from Germany and the United States advance melanoma research
Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 30th, 2006
Study 1: A study from Germany has reported on the therapeutic efficacy of antigen-specific vaccination and toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation against established transplanted and autochthonous melanoma in mice.
"Malignant melanoma is an attractive model disease for the development of antigen-specific immunotherapy because many antigens recognized by tumor-specific T cells have been identified.
"In C57BL/6 mice, genetic immunization with recombinant adenovirus encoding xenogeneic human tyrosinase-related protein 2 (Ad-hTRP2) induces protective but not...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-08-30)
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