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Immunogenetic therapy for B-cell malignancies.
Seminars in oncology - 1 Dec 2000
Kipps T J, Chu P, Wierda W G
Abstract excerpt
Neoplastic B cells are stealthlike in their ability to evade immune detection, even by allogeneic T cells of normal healthy donors. This stealthlike phenotype can be reversed by activating neoplastic B cells through ligation of CD40, a cell surface molecule that can interact with a ligand expressed on activated T cells. The gene encoding this ligand, CD154, can be transferred into neoplastic B cells ex vivo...
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