Building better monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 361-370

  Weiner, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; BISPECIFIC ANTIBODY; CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENT; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; CANCER CELL; CANCER THERAPY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; DRUG CONJUGATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TARGET CELL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BISPECIFIC; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCONJUGATES; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84929885314     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3930     Document Type: Review

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