Cancer/Testis (CT) antigens - A new link between gametogenesis and cancer

Cancer Immunity

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-7

  Old, Lloyd J ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gametogenesis; Tumor antigens

Indexed keywords

CANCER TESTIS ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DEMETHYLATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA LIBRARY; DOWN REGULATION; EDITORIAL; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; OOCYTE; SEROLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TROPHOBLAST; TUMOR CELL; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; TESTIS;

EID: 0003142849     PISSN: 14249634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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