The immune response to melanoma is limited by thymic selection of self-antigens.
The expression of melanoma-associated antigens (MAA) being limited to normal melanocytes and melanomas, MAAs are ideal targets for immunotherapy and melanoma vaccines. As MAAs are derived from self, immune responses to these may be limited by thymic tolerance. The extent to which self-tolerance prev...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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