Immunobiochemical Reconstruction of Influenza Lung Infection—Melanoma Skin Cancer Interactions

It was recently reported that acute influenza infection of the lung promoted distal melanoma growth in the dermis of mice. Melanoma-specific CD8+ T cells were shunted to the lung in the presence of the infection, where they expressed high levels of inflammation-induced cell-activation blocker PD-1,...

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Main Authors: Evgeni V. Nikolaev, Andrew Zloza, Eduardo D. Sontag
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00004/full