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Human anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells are sensitive to NK cell-mediated lysis via ULBP2/5/6 and chemoattract NK cells.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Nov 2014
Wennerberg Erik, Pfefferle Aline, Ekblad Lars, Yoshimoto Yuya, Kremer Veronika, Kaminskyy Vitaliy O, Juhlin C Christofer, Höög Anders, Bodin Inger, Svjatoha Vitalijs, Larsson Catharina, Zedenius Jan, Wennerberg Johan, Lundqvist Andreas
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer with no curative therapies available. To date, strategies to target ATC by immunotherapy have not been evaluated. We investigated whether ATC would be a suitable target for natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We first established seven new cell lines from ATC tumors, three from papillary...
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