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Fibronectin promotes the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes generated from cancer patients.
British journal of cancer - 1 Nov 1996
Mizobata S, Tanimura H, Yamaue H, Tani M, Tsunoda T, Iwahashi M, Noguchi K, Nishimoto N, Hotta T, Arii K
Abstract excerpt
We studied whether fibronectin (FN) enhances the activity of autologous tumour-reactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) generated from cancer patients. The proliferation of CTLs stimulated by immobilised anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody and interleukin 2 (IL-2) was enhanced three or four times by immobilised FN. whereas soluble FN did not alter the DNA synthesis of CTLs. Moreover, the cytotoxic activity of CTLs was...
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