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Adapting a transforming growth factor beta-related tumor protection strategy to enhance antitumor immunity.
Blood - 1 May 2002
Bollard Catherine M, Rössig Claudia, Calonge M Julia, Huls M Helen, Wagner Hans-Joachim, Massague Joan, Brenner Malcolm K, Heslop Helen E, Rooney Cliona M
Abstract excerpt
Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta), a pleiotropic cytokine that regulates cell growth and differentiation, is secreted by many human tumors and markedly inhibits tumor-specific cellular immunity. Tumors can avoid the differentiating and apoptotic effects of TGF-beta by expressing a nonfun...
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