Genetic trickery - Escape of leukemia from immune attack

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 361, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 524-525

  Barrett, John ^a   Blazar, Bruce R ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; THY 1 ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CANCER CONTROL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOTOXICITY; EDITORIAL; GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR ESCAPE; UNIPARENTAL DISOMY;

EID: 68049139716     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0903177     Document Type: Editorial

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