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Cancer
Studies from V. Umansky and co-researchers in the area of cancer published
January 15th, 2009
According to recent research from Heidelberg, Germany, "We previously reported that bone marrows of breast cancer patients contained tumor antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells with central or effector memory phenotype. Using a recently developed ret transgenic mouse melanoma model, we now show that bone marrows and tumors of transgenic mice contain high frequencies of CD8(+) T cells specific for the melanoma antigen tyrosinase-related protein 2 and showing mostly effector memory phenotype." "Moreover, increased numbers of bone marrow tyrosinase-related protein-2-specific effector memory CD8(+) T cells are also detected in transgenic animals older than 20 weeks with...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-01-15)
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