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Roberto Benelli1, Maria Raffaella Zocchi2, Alessandro Poggi1
1SSD Oncologia Molecolare e Angiogenesi, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genoa, Italy.
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Immune checkpoint (IC) molecules act as receptors, expressed on immune effector cells, that are able to recognize specific ligands in normal or tumor cells [...].
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