Won’t you come on in? How to favor lymphocyte infiltration in tumors
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Abnormal tumor vasculature and endothelial cell anergy limit tumor/T-cell interactions. We have found that NGR-TNF, a tumor vasculature-homing derivative of TNF, selectively activates endothelial cells in neoplastic tissues and induces the release of chemokines that favor tumor infiltration by T cells, thereby enhancing the efficacy of active and adoptive immunotherapy.
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