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Targeting lymphotoxin-mediated negative selection to prevent prostate cancer in mice with genetic predisposition.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Oct 2009
Zhou Penghui, Fang Xianfeng, McNally Beth A, Yu Ping, Zhu Mingzhao, Fu Yang-Xin, Wang Lizhong, Liu Yang, Zheng Pan
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The identification of individuals genetically susceptible to cancer calls for preventive measures to minimize the cancer risk in these high-risk populations. Immune prevention is made necessary by the anticipated health threat, but lack of enough high-affinity T cells against tumor-associated antigens and the unpredictability of tumor antigens make antigen-based immune prevention untenable for cancer. To address...
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