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Enhanced immune response induced by P5 HER2/neu-derived peptide-pulsed dendritic cells as a preventive cancer vaccine.
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 1 Jan 2018
Gholizadeh Zahra, Tavakkol-Afshari Jalil, Nikpoor Amin Reza, Jalali Seyed Amir, Jaafari Mahmoud Reza
Abstract excerpt
Dendritic cells are special and powerful antigen-presenting cells that can induce primary immune responses against tumour-associated antigens. They can present antigens via both MHC-I and MHC-II, so they have the ability to stimulate both cytotoxic T lymphocytes and T helper cells. Furthermore, CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes require activation by CD4+ T cells. This requires a CD4+ T cell activator molecule, of...
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