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Editorial: Special Issue of Pacific Graphics 95

Pacific Graphics ‘95, the third international conference on Computer Graphics and its Applications, was held on 21–24 August 1995, in Seoul, Korea. Following on the success of the two previous conferences: Pacific Graphics ‘93 (Seoul, Korea) and Pacific Graphics ’94 (Beijing, China), we received 62 submissions from 22 different countries all over the world and, after peer review, selected 24 pa...

Re: the terminology issue for myeloid-derived suppressor cells.

With regard to the two recent letters (1, 2) proposing a name change from myeloid suppressor cells (MSC) to myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC), although we appreciate the attempt to bring clarity to the cells responsible for immunosuppression, we do not think this alleviates the problem. In describing hematopoiesis, the terms myeloid and lymphoid simply discriminate between cells originati...

The terminology issue for myeloid-derived suppressor cells.

The recent study by Yang et al. (1) described antigen-specific immunosuppression by Gr-1CD11b myeloid cells, which was mediated by the expression of CD80. This report continued a series of recent articles published inCancer Research , which provided strong evidence in support of a critical role of these cells in tumor progression (1–6). Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in immunos...

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