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Detection and characterization of a novel subset of CD8⁺CD57⁺ T cells in metastatic melanoma with an incompletely differentiated phenotype.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 May 2012
Wu Richard C, Liu Shujuan, Chacon Jessica A, Wu Sheng, Li Yufeng, Sukhumalchandra Pariya, Murray James L, Molldrem Jeffrey J, Hwu Patrick, Pircher Hanspeter, Lizée Gregory, Radvanyi Laszlo G
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Tumor-specific T cells are frequently induced naturally in melanoma patients and infiltrate tumors. It is enigmatic why these patients fail to experience tumor regression. Given that CD8(+) T cells mediate antigen-specific killing of tumor cells, the focus of this study was to identify alterations in the differentiation of CD8(+) residing at the tumor site, with emphasis on a population expressing CD57,...
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