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Tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells in cancer pathogenesis.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2015
Tran Janco Jo Marie, Lamichhane Purushottam, Karyampudi Lavakumar, Knutson Keith L
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Dendritic cells (DCs) play a pivotal role in the tumor microenvironment, which is known to affect disease progression in many human malignancies. Infiltration by mature, active DCs into the tumors confers an increase in immune activation and recruitment of disease-fighting immune effector cells and pathways. DCs are the preferential target of infiltrating T cells. However, tumor cells have means of suppressing DC...
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