Autoimmuno-Anti-Tumour Immunity (AATI) - Understanding the Immune Responses against "Self" & "Altered-self"

• Päätekijä: Fang-Ping Huang (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Sarja: Frontiers Research Topics
• Aiheet: Medicine; Autoimmunity; tumour immunotherapy; Immunosuppression; tumourigenesis; Immune Regulation; Inflammation; anti-tumour immunity; Cancer
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The brief description of tumours being "wounds that do not heal" by Dr Harold F. Dworak nearly three decades ago (N Engl J Med 1986) has provided not only a vivid illustration of neoplastic diseases in general but also, in retrospect conceptually, a plausible immunological definition of ca...