Genetically modified T cells in cancer therapy: opportunities and challenges
Tumours use many strategies to evade the host immune response, including downregulation or weak immunogenicity of target antigens and creation of an immune-suppressive tumour environment. T cells play a key role in cell-mediated immunity and, recently, strategies to genetically modify T cells either...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2015-04-01
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Series: | Disease Models & Mechanisms |
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Online Access: | http://dmm.biologists.org/content/8/4/337 |