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Abstract
Tumor immune escape is a critical trait of cancer but the mechanisms involved have yet to fully emerge. One recent study has shown that tumor cells can escape T-cell immunity by overexpressing the endothelial cell adhesion molecule vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), which normally mediates leukocyte extravasion to sites of tissue inflammation. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) was identified as one tumor type where VCAM-1 is commonly highly overexpressed. Together, our findings suggest that RCCs might exploit VCAM-1 overexpression for immune escape.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17616653 PMCID: PMC3179385 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1543
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Res ISSN: 0008-5472 Impact factor: 12.701