Enhancement of vaccine-mediated antitumor immunity in cancer patients after depletion of regulatory T cells
28th Nov 2005, 12:24 GMT
Duke University researchers have now shown that selectively killing the population of regulatory T cells in cancer patients - cells that normally function to restrain the activity of the immune response - improves the ability of a cancer vaccine to stimulate tumor-specific T cells.
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