The PD1: PD-L1/2 pathway from discovery to clinical implementation

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Bardhan, Kankana ^a   Anagnostou, Theodora ^b   Boussiotis, Vassiliki A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer immunology; Cancer immunotherapy; PD 1; PD L1; T cell exhaustion; T cell responses; T cell tolerance

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 LIGAND 1; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLONAL ANERGY; EFFECTOR CELL; EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; TUMOR IMMUNITY; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

EID: 85009374108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2016.00550     Document Type: Review

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