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Characterization of the immune escape phenotype of human gastric cancers with and without high-frequency microsatellite instability.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Apr 2007
Hirata T, Yamamoto H, Taniguchi H, Horiuchi S, Oki M, Adachi Y, Imai K, Shinomura Y
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancers with and without high-frequency microsatellite instability (MSI-H) represent distinctive pathways of carcinogenesis. The aim of this study was to clarify if human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I antigen subunits and antigen processing machinery (APM) components are differentially downregulated in these two groups of tumours. Using reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR), loss of heterozygosity (LOH)...
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