Checkpoint modulators in cancer immunotherapy

Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 69-82

  Sathish, Jean G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Cancer therapy; Checkpoint activators; Checkpoint inhibitors; CTLA 4; Cytotoxic T cells; Immunosuppression; PD 1

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A2 RECEPTOR; CD134 ANTIGEN; CD137 ANTIGEN; CD72 ANTIGEN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; GLUCOCORTICOID INDUCED TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION GENE 3 PROTEIN; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; T CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN MUCIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 84939223890     PISSN: 21518017     EISSN: 21518025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/ForumImmunDisTher.2015013940     Document Type: Review

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