Natural selection of tumor variants in the generation of "tumor escape" phenotypes

Nature Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 999-1005

  Khong, Hung T ^a   Restifo, Nicholas P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FAS LIGAND; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSOR CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR ESCAPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; APOPTOSIS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SELECTION (GENETICS); T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TUMOR ESCAPE;

EID: 0036852191     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1102-999     Document Type: Article

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