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Immunobiology and Immunotherapy

Section edited by Alessandra Cesano

The Immunobiology and Immunotherapy section aims to enrich the communication between basic biological and immunological sciences and the clinical investigation arena.

As immunology has evolved to be a central discipline connected to a wide range of therapeutic areas, the number and diversity of platform technologies has also increased, spanning small molecules, biologics, microbial vectors and cells. Such levels of activity require appropriate means to share new knowledge and to catalyze the development of the field. This section aims to provide such a platform and welcomes submissions across all disciplines, including inflammation, autoimmunity, transplantation, metabolic disorders.

The section was founded with the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) under the title "Tumor immunology and biological cancer therapy" and Pedro Romero was the founding Section Editor.

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  1. T cell therapy represents an emerging and promising modality for the treatment of both infectious disease and cancer. Data from recent clinical trials have highlighted the potential for this therapeutic modali...

    Authors: Michael Kalos
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:138
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  2. Development of a standardized platform for the rapid expansion of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) with anti-tumor function from patients with limited TIL numbers or tumor tissues challenges their clinica...

    Authors: Qunrui Ye, Maria Loisiou, Bruce L Levine, Megan M Suhoski, James L Riley, Carl H June, George Coukos and Daniel J Powell Jr
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:131
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  3. Vitiligo is a common toxicity associated with immunotherapy for melanoma. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) against melanoma commonly target melanoma-associated antigens (MAAs) which are also expressed by melanoc...

    Authors: Gwendolen Y Chang, Holbrook E Kohrt, Tor B Stuge, Erich J Schwartz, Jeffrey S Weber and Peter P Lee
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:122
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  4. Time-dependent chemotherapeutic agents can selectively target tumor cells in susceptible phases of the cell cycle however a fraction of tumor cells in non-vulnerable cell cycle phases remain drug-resistant. Im...

    Authors: Ioannis Alagkiozidis, Andrea Facciabene, Marinos Tsiatas, Carmine Carpenito, Fabian Benencia, Sarah Adams, Zdenka Jonak, Carl H June, Daniel J Powell Jr and George Coukos
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:77
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  5. Aurora kinase ensures accurate chromosome segregation during cell cycle, maintaining genetic integrity in cell division. VX-680, a small-molecule Aurora kinase inhibitor, interferes with mitotic entry and form...

    Authors: Duo-Rong Xu, Shan Huang, Zi-Jie Long, Jia-Jie Chen, Zheng-Zhi Zou, Juan Li, Dong-Jun Lin and Quentin Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:74
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  6. Led by key opinion leaders in the field, the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc, recently renamed the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, SITC) provided a...

    Authors: James M Balwit, Pawel Kalinski, Vernon K Sondak, Pierre G Coulie, Elizabeth M Jaffee, Thomas F Gajewski and Francesco M Marincola
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:60
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  7. High-dose Interferon (HDI) therapy produces a clinical response and achieves relapse-free survival in 20-33% of patients with operable high risk or metastatic melanoma. However, patients may develop significan...

    Authors: Diana L Simons, Gerald Lee, John M Kirkwood and Peter P Lee
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:52
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  8. The differentiation of CD8+ T lymphocytes following priming of naïve cells is central in the establishment of the adaptive immune response. Yet, the molecular events underlying this process are not fully understo...

    Authors: Bruno Salaun, Takuya Yamamoto, Bassam Badran, Yasuko Tsunetsugu-Yokota, Antoine Roux, Lukas Baitsch, Redouane Rouas, Hussein Fayyad-Kazan, Petra Baumgaertner, Estelle Devevre, Anirudh Ramesh, Marion Braun, Daniel Speiser, Brigitte Autran, Philippe Martiat, Victor Appay…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:44
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  9. Many peptide-based cancer vaccines have been tested in clinical trials with a limited success, mostly due to difficulties associated with peptide stability and delivery, resulting in inefficient antigen presen...

    Authors: Wenxue Ma, Trevor Smith, Vladimir Bogin, Yu Zhang, Cengiz Ozkan, Mihri Ozkan, Melanie Hayden, Stephanie Schroter, Ewa Carrier, Davorka Messmer, Vipin Kumar and Boris Minev
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:34
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  10. Infiltration of colorectal carcinomas (CRC) with T-cells has been associated with good prognosis. There are some indications that chemokines could be involved in T-cell infiltration of tumors. Selective modula...

    Authors: Klara Berencsi, Pyapalli Rani, Tianqian Zhang, Laura Gross, Michael Mastrangelo, Neal J Meropol, Dorothee Herlyn and Rajasekharan Somasundaram
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:33
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  11. Clinical trials of immunologic therapies provide opportunities to study the cellular and molecular effects of those therapies and may permit identification of biomarkers of response. When the trials are perfor...

    Authors: Walter C Olson, Mark E Smolkin, Erin M Farris, Robyn J Fink, Andrea R Czarkowski, Jonathan H Fink, Kimberly A Chianese-Bullock and Craig L Slingluff Jr
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:26
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  12. The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, SITC (formerly the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer, iSBTc), aims to improve cancer patient outcomes by advancing the science, development and app...

    Authors: James M Balwit, Patrick Hwu, Walter J Urba and Francesco M Marincola
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2011 9:18
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  13. Developing new vaccination strategies and optimizing current vaccines through heterologous prime-boost carries the promise of integrating the benefits of different yet synergistic vectors. It has been widely t...

    Authors: Adrian Bot, Zhiyong Qiu, Raymond Wong, Mihail Obrocea and Kent A Smith
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:132
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  14. The International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer (iSBTc, recently renamed the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, SITC) hosted a one-day symposium at the National Institutes of Health on September 3...

    Authors: Lisa H Butterfield, Mary L Disis, Samir N Khleif, James M Balwit and Francesco M Marincola
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:130
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  15. Cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells are typically differentiated in vitro with interferon (IFN)-γ and αCD3 monoclonal antibodies (mAb), followed by the repeated provision of interleukin (IL)-2. It is presently un...

    Authors: Giuseppina Bonanno, Paola Iudicone, Andrea Mariotti, Annabella Procoli, Annino Pandolfi, Daniela Fioravanti, Maria Corallo, Alessandro Perillo, Giovanni Scambia, Luca Pierelli and Sergio Rutella
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:129
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  16. Recent preclinical adoptive immunotherapy studies in murine models prompt to employ "proper" rather than "as many as possible" antigen-specific T cells to gain better therapeutic results. Ideally, "proper" T c...

    Authors: Anna Merlo, Riccardo Turrini, Cristina Trento, Paola Zanovello, Riccardo Dolcetti and Antonio Rosato
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:121
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  17. DNA vaccines represent an attractive approach for cancer treatment by inducing active T cell and B cell immune responses to tumor antigens. Previous studies have shown that interleukin-13 receptor α2 chain (IL...

    Authors: Hideyuki Nakashima, Toshio Fujisawa, Syed R Husain and Raj K Puri
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:116
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  18. Pegylated granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF; pegfilgrastim) is a longer-acting form of G-CSF, whose effects on dendritic cell (DC) and regulatory T cell (Treg) mobilization, and on the in vivo and ex v...

    Authors: Giuseppina Bonanno, Annabella Procoli, Andrea Mariotti, Maria Corallo, Alessandro Perillo, Silvio Danese, Raimondo De Cristofaro, Giovanni Scambia and Sergio Rutella
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:114
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  19. The complex data sets generated by higher-order polychromatic flow cytometry experiments are a challenge to analyze. Here we describe Exhaustive Expansion, a data analysis approach for deriving hundreds to tho...

    Authors: Janet C Siebert, Lian Wang, Daniel P Haley, Ann Romer, Bo Zheng, Wes Munsil, Kenton W Gregory and Edwin B Walker
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:106
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  21. Tumor immune responses are first generated and metastases often begin in tumor sentinel lymph nodes (TSLN). Therefore, it is important to promote tumor immunity within this microenvironment. Mifepristone (RU48...

    Authors: Claudia Raja Gabaglia, Alexandra DeLaney, Jennifer Gee, Ramesh Halder, Frank L Graham, Jack Gauldie, Eli E Sercarz and Todd A Braciak
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:98
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  22. Antigen-loaded dendritic cells (DC) are capable of priming naïve T cells and therefore represent an attractive adjuvant for vaccine development in anti-tumor immunotherapy. Numerous protocols have been describ...

    Authors: Maja Bürdek, Stefani Spranger, Susanne Wilde, Bernhard Frankenberger, Dolores J Schendel and Christiane Geiger
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:90
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  23. Several single center studies have provided evidence of immune activation and antitumor activity of therapeutic vaccination with dendritic cells (DC) in patients with metastatic melanoma. The efficacy of this ...

    Authors: Antoni Ribas, Luis H Camacho, Sun Min Lee, Evan M Hersh, Charles K Brown, Jon M Richards, Maria Jovie Rodriguez, Victor G Prieto, John A Glaspy, Denise K Oseguera, Jackie Hernandez, Arturo Villanueva, Bartosz Chmielowski, Peggie Mitsky, Nadège Bercovici, Ernesto Wasserman…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:89
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  24. The tumor associated antigen (TAA) gp100 was one of the first identified and has been used in clinical trials to treat melanoma patients. However, the gp100 epitope peptide restricted to HLA-A*2402 has not bee...

    Authors: Toshiyuki Baba, Marimo Sato-Matsushita, Akira Kanamoto, Akihiko Itoh, Naoki Oyaizu, Yusuke Inoue, Yutaka Kawakami and Hideaki Tahara
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:84
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  25. The oncogene CDC25B phosphatase plays an important role in cancer cell growth. We have recently reported that patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) have significantly higher serum levels of C...

    Authors: Jun Dong, Bo-hang Zeng, Li-hua Xu, Jun-ye Wang, Man-Zhi Li, Mu-sheng Zeng and Wan-li Liu
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:81
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  26. Melanoma vaccines have not been optimized. Adjuvants are added to activate dendritic cells (DCs) and to induce a favourable immunologic milieu, however, little is known about their cellular and molecular effec...

    Authors: Jochen T Schaefer, James W Patterson, Donna H Deacon, Mark E Smolkin, Gina R Petroni, Emily M Jackson and Craig L Slingluff Jr
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:79
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  27. High-dose interferon-alpha 2b (IFN-α 2b) is the only approved systemic therapy in the United States for the adjuvant treatment of melanoma. The study objective was to explore the immunomodulatory mechanism of ...

    Authors: Paolo A Ascierto, Maria Napolitano, Egidio Celentano, Ester Simeone, Giusy Gentilcore, Antonio Daponte, Mariaelena Capone, Corrado Caracò, Rosa Calemma, Gerardo Beneduce, Margherita Cerrone, Vincenzo De Rosa, Giuseppe Palmieri, Giuseppe Castello, John M Kirkwood, Francesco M Marincola…
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:76
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  28. IMP321 is a recombinant soluble LAG-3Ig fusion protein that binds to MHC class II with high avidity and mediates APC and then antigen-experienced memory CD8+ T cell activation. We report clinical and biological r...

    Authors: Chrystelle Brignone, Maya Gutierrez, Fawzia Mefti, Etienne Brain, Rosana Jarcau, Frédérique Cvitkovic, Nabil Bousetta, Jacques Medioni, Joseph Gligorov, Caroline Grygar, Manon Marcu and Frédéric Triebel
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:71
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  30. Adjuvant trastuzumab (Herceptin) treatment of breast cancer patients significantly improves their clinical outcome. Vaccination is an attractive alternative approach to provide HER-2/neu (Her2)-specific antibo...

    Authors: HÃ¥kan Norell, Isabel Poschke, Jehad Charo, Wei Z Wei, Courtney Erskine, Marie P Piechocki, Keith L Knutson, Jonas Bergh, Elisabet Lidbrink and Rolf Kiessling
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:53
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  31. In preparation for potential clinical development of Ab-01, an antagonistic antibody directed against the IL21R, studies were undertaken to address translational medicine needs that fall into four categories: ...

    Authors: Maya Arai, Sadhana Jain, Amy A Weaver, Andrew A Hill, Yongjing Guo, Andrea G Bree, Michael F Smith Jr, Scott W Allen, Edward R LaVallie, Deborah Young, Laird Bloom, Karissa Adkins and Margot O'Toole
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:51
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  32. Selective neutralization of the IL21/IL21R signaling pathway is a promising approach for the treatment of a variety of autoimmune diseases. Ab-01 is a human neutralizing anti-IL21R antibody. In order to ensure...

    Authors: Yongjing Guo, Andrew A Hill, Renee C Ramsey, Frederick W Immermann, Christopher Corcoran, Deborah Young, Edward R LaVallie, Mark Ryan, Theresa Bechard, Richard Pfeifer, Garvin Warner, Marcia Bologna, Laird Bloom and Margot O'Toole
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:50
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  33. T-cell immunodeficiency is a common feature in cancer patients, which may relate to initiation and development of tumor. Based on our previous finding, to further characterize the immune status, T cell prolife...

    Authors: Yangqiu Li, Suxia Geng, Qingsong Yin, Shaohua Chen, Lijian Yang, Xiuli Wu, Bo Li, Xin Du, Christian A Schmidt and Grzegorz K Przybylski
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:47
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  34. Combination immunotherapies can be effective against subcutaneous tumors in mice but the effect against orthotopic malignant disease is less well characterized. In particular, a combination of three agonist an...

    Authors: Jennifer A Westwood, Phillip K Darcy, Preethi Mayura Guru, Janelle Sharkey, Hollie J Pegram, Sally M Amos, Mark J Smyth and Michael H Kershaw
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:42
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  35. Anti-IL-21R antibodies are potential therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. This study evaluated correlations between the pharmacodynamic (PD) activity, pharmacokinetics, and anti-product antib...

    Authors: Yulia Vugmeyster, Scott Allen, Pamela Szklut, Andrea Bree, Mark Ryan, Margery Ma, Vikki Spaulding, Deborah Young, Heath Guay, Laird Bloom, Michael W Leach, Margot O'Toole and Karissa Adkins
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:41
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  36. Several immunotherapeutic approaches rely on antigen-specific T-cells. Restrictions in the T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire were reported as indicator of anti-tumor cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response in var...

    Authors: Sebastian Ochsenreither, Alberto Fusi, Susanne Wojtke, Antonia Busse, Natascha C Nüssler, Eckhard Thiel, Ulrich Keilholz and Dirk Nagorsen
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:35
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  38. Type-1 T cells are critical for effective anti-tumor immune responses. The recently discovered microRNAs (miRs) are a large family of small regulatory RNAs that control diverse aspects of cell function, includ...

    Authors: Kotaro Sasaki, Gary Kohanbash, Aki Hoji, Ryo Ueda, Heather A McDonald, Todd A Reinhart, Jeremy Martinson, Michael T Lotze, Francesco M Marincola, Ena Wang, Mitsugu Fujita and Hideho Okada
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:17
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  39. Although an abundance of evidence has indicated that tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are associated with a favorable prognosis in patients with colon cancer, it is still unknown how TAMs exert a protective...

    Authors: Qiang Zhou, Rui-Qing Peng, Xiao-Jun Wu, Qing Xia, Jing-Hui Hou, Ya Ding, Qi-Ming Zhou, Xing Zhang, Zhi-Zhong Pang, De-Sen Wan, Yi-Xin Zeng and Xiao-Shi Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:13
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  40. Glycoprotein-96, a non-polymorphic heat-shock protein, associates with intracellular peptides. Autologous tumor-derived heat shock protein-peptide complex 96 (HSPPC-96) can elicit potent tumor-specific T cell ...

    Authors: Omar Eton, Merrick I Ross, Mary Jo East, Paul F Mansfield, Nicholas Papadopoulos, Julie A Ellerhorst, Agop Y Bedikian and Jeffrey E Lee
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:9
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  41. Due to the lack of specific tumor antigens, the majority of tested cancer vaccines for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are based on tumor cell lysate. The identification of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) gene mutations i...

    Authors: Osama E Rahma, Ed Ashtar, Ramy Ibrahim, Antoun Toubaji, Barry Gause, Vincent E Herrin, W Marston Linehan, Seth M Steinberg, Frank Grollman, George Grimes, Sarah A Bernstein, Jay A Berzofsky and Samir N Khleif
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:8
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  42. The conventional treatment protocol in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy utilizes a dense-scan strategy to produce closely packed thermal lesions aiming at eradicating as much tumor mass as poss...

    Authors: Fang Liu, Zhenlin Hu, Lei Qiu, Chun Hui, Chao Li, Pei Zhong and Junping Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:7
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  43. Efficacy of cancer vaccines may be limited due to immune escape mechanisms like loss or mutation of target antigens. Here, we analyzed 10 HLA-A2 positive patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for loss or ...

    Authors: Antonia Busse, Anne Letsch, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Anika Nonnenmacher, Sebastian Ochsenreither, Eckhard Thiel and Ulrich Keilholz
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:5
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  44. Dendritic cells (DCs) are often produced by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-4 (IL-4) stimulation of monocytes. To improve the effectiveness of DC adoptive immune cance...

    Authors: Ping Jin, Tae Hee Han, Jiaqiang Ren, Stefanie Saunders, Ena Wang, Francesco M Marincola and David F Stroncek
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:4
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  45. Liposomal doxorubicin (Doxil) is a cytotoxic chemotherapy drug with a favorable hematologic toxicity profile. Its active drug, doxorubicin, has interesting immunomodulatory properties. Here, the effects of Dox...

    Authors: Ioannis Alagkiozidis, Andrea Facciabene, Carmine Carpenito, Fabian Benencia, Zdenka Jonak, Sarah Adams, Richard G Carroll, Phyllis A Gimotty, Rachel Hammond, Gwen-äel Danet-Desnoyers, Carl H June, Daniel J Powell Jr and George Coukos
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2009 7:104
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  46. CD40 activation of antigen presenting cells (APC) such as dendritic cells (DC) and B cells plays an important role in immunological licensing of T cell immunity. Agonist CD40 antibodies have been previously sh...

    Authors: Erica L Carpenter, Rosemarie Mick, Jens Rüter and Robert H Vonderheide
    Citation: Journal of Translational Medicine 2009 7:93
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