Desarrollo tímico dependiente del aire de las células T reguladoras asociadas al tumor

Sven Malchow1, Daniel S Leventhal, Saki Nishi

  • 1Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 9, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores descubrieron un tipo específico de célula T reguladora (Treg) que se dirige a los antígenos asociados a la próstata, no a los específicos del tumor. Estas células se desarrollan en el timo a través de la vía del regulador autoinmune (Aire) y se encuentran en los tumores de próstata.

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