5-azacytidine treatment sensitizes tumor cells to T-cell mediated cytotoxicity and modulates NK cells in patients with myeloid malignancies

Blood Cancer Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gang, A O ^a   Frosig T M ^a,b   Brimnes, M K ^a   Lyngaa, R ^a   Treppendahl, M B ^c   Gronbaek K ^c   Dufva, I H ^a   Straten, P Thor ^a   Hadrup, S R ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; CANCER TESTIS ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CANCER; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; T CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 84901835457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20445385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bcj.2014.14     Document Type: Article

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