Researchers explore the cellular and molecular adaptations associated with human secondary lymphoid tissue in adults during ...

Cytotoxic T cells are CD8-postive T cells that are specialized for the direct killing of cells that are infected (particularly with viruses), cancerous or damaged in other ways. They express the ...

This self-preservation mechanism can however decrease the efficiency of immunosurveillance of malignant cells by CD8 T cells. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is initiated by chronic viral infections, ...

1 School of Health Preservation and Rehabilitation, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China 2 Affiliated Sichuan Provincial Rehabilitation Hospital of Chengdu University of ...

NK cells, as opposed to T cells, do not induce graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), therefore treatment-related toxicity owing to allogeneic donor NK cell administration is minimal. Alloreactive NK ...

The basis of peptide vaccination is the observation that leukemia cells can act as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that cleave endogenous leukemia antigens in their proteasome and present them on ...