Lack of ex vivo peripheral and intrahepatic α-fetoprotein-specific CD4+ responses in hepatocellular carcinoma

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2171-2182

  Witkowski, Mario ^a   Spangenberg, Hans Christian ^a   Neumann Haefelin, Christoph ^a   Büttner, Nico ^a   Breous, Ekaterina ^a   Kersting, Nadine ^a   Drognitz, Oliver ^b   Hopt, Ulrich T ^b   Blum, Hubert E ^a   Semmo, Nasser ^a   Thimme, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

fetoprotein, hepatocellular carcinoma, CD4+; T cell responses

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CD40 LIGAND; EPITOPE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR IMMUNITY; UPREGULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD40 LIGAND; COHORT STUDIES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES;

EID: 80052259079     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25866     Document Type: Article

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