The Scientist : Infection suppresses tumour neovascularization [10/5/2001]

Infection suppresses tumour neovascularization

Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010510-03

10 May 2001

Bacterial and protozoan infections have the ability to suppress neoplastic growth, a process assumed to be due to concomitant cell-mediated anti-tumour immunity. In the May Journal of Immunology Christopher Hunter and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia show that suppression of tumour neovascularization is a novel mechanism essential for infection-induced resistance to tumours.

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