Critical role of spatial interaction between CD8+ and Foxp3 + cells in human gastric cancer: The distance matters

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-119

  Feichtenbeiner, Anita ^a   Haas, Matthias ^b   Büttner, Maike ^a   Grabenbauer, Gerhard G ^a   Fietkau, Rainer ^a   Distel, Luitpold V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer immunology; Cytotoxic T cells; Gastric cancer; Immune evasion; Regulatory T cells; Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84894485938     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: 14320851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-013-1491-x     Document Type: Article

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