Researchers reveal how immune cells can be harnessed to target melanoma.
April 10th, 2009
Researchers at the Babraham Institute and the University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Italy, co-ordinating an international network of scientists and clinicians from Europe, the USA and Japan, have identified new mechanisms through which the immune system recognises and responds to tumours like melanomas. This discovery may offer therapeutic approaches for tackling metastatic melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer responsible for around 2,000 deaths in the UK each year.
These exciting new findings, published in the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, reveal how a type of white blood cell - Natural Killer (NK) cells - tackles tumours, characterising for the first time the molecular interactions that lead to melanoma destruction. This has advanced understanding of melanoma recognition by the immune system and has the potential to open up new avenues of research into the prevention of metastasis by harnessing NK cells’ natural immunity.
SOURCE:http://www.physorg.com/news158570124.html
Researchers reveal how immune cells can be harnessed to target melanoma.
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