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Clinical response to PD-1 blockade correlates with a sub-fraction of peripheral central memory CD4+ T cells in patients with malignant melanoma.
International immunology - 3 Feb 2018
Takeuchi Yoshiko, Tanemura Atsushi, Tada Yasuko, Katayama Ichiro, Kumanogoh Atsushi, Nishikawa Hiroyoshi
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Cancer immunotherapy that blocks immune checkpoint molecules, such as PD-1/PD-L1, unleashes dysfunctional antitumor T-cell responses and has durable clinical benefits in various types of cancers. Yet its clinical efficacy is limited to a small proportion of patients, highlighting the need for identifying biomarkers that can predict the clinical response by exploring antitumor responses crucial for tumor...
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