Intratumor depletion of CD4+ cells unmasks tumor immunogenicity leading to the rejection of late-stage tumors

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 779-791

  Yu, Ping ^a   Lee, Youjin ^a   Liu, Wenhua ^a   Krausz, Thomas ^a   Chong, Anita ^a   Schreiber, Hans ^a   Fu, Yang Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; MALE; MICE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 15444377017     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20041684     Document Type: Article

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