Melanoma cells inhibit NK cell functions - Letter

Cancer Research

Volumn 72, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 5428-5429

  Sconocchia, Giuseppe ^a   Arriga, Roberto ^b   Tornillo, Luigi ^c   Terracciano, Luigi ^c   Ferrone, Soldano ^d   Spagnoli, Giulio C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD56 ANTIGEN; CD57 ANTIGEN; NATURAL CYTOTOXICITY TRIGGERING RECEPTOR 1;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INFILTRATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOMA CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84867529636     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-1181     Document Type: Letter

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