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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Lisa Butterfield
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-62005 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Pardee Angela D AD Shi Jian J Butterfield Lisa H LH
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20141029 11
Several tumor-derived factors have been implicated in dendritic cell (DC) dysfunction in cancer patients. α-fetoprotein (AFP) is an oncofetal Ag that is highly expressed in abnormalities of prenatal development and several epithelial cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In HCC patients exhibiting high levels of serum AFP, we observed a lower ratio of myeloid/plasmacytoid circulating DCs compared with patients with low serum AFP levels and healthy donors. To test the effect of AFP o ...[more]