Cancer Vaccine by Fusions of Dendritic and Cancer Cells

Dendritic cells (DCs) are potent antigen-presenting cells and play a central role in the initiation and regulation of primary immune responses. Therefore, their use for the active immunotherapy against cancers has been studied with considerable interest. The fusion of DCs with whole tumor cells repr...

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Main Authors: Shigeo Koido, Eiichi Hara, Sadamu Homma, Yoshihisa Namiki, Toshifumi Ohkusa, Jianlin Gong, Hisao Tajiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/657369