MHC Class-I Loss and Cancer Immune Escape

• Main Author: Garrido, Federico (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1151
• Subjects: Cancer research.; Molecular biology.; Immunology.; Human genetics.; Cancer Research.; Molecular Medicine.; Human Genetics.

This book is about the escape strategies used by cancer cells to avoid the immune response of the host. The main characters of this story are the "Antigen Presenting Molecules" and the "T Lymphocytes". The former are known as the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC): the H-2 an...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Mhc/Hla Class I Loss In Cancer Cells
• Hla Class-I Expression And Cancer Immunotherapy
• Hla Class-Ii Expression In Human Tumors
• Index.