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SUBMITTER: Alduaij W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3099571 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alduaij Waleed W Ivanov Andrei A Honeychurch Jamie J Cheadle Eleanor J EJ Potluri Sandeep S Lim Sean H SH Shimada Kazuyuki K Chan Claude H T CH Tutt Alison A Beers Stephen A SA Glennie Martin J MJ Cragg Mark S MS Illidge Tim M TM
Blood 20110304 17
The anti-CD20 mAb rituximab has substantially improved the clinical outcome of patients with a wide range of B-cell malignancies. However, many patients relapse or fail to respond to rituximab, and thus there is intense investigation into the development of novel anti-CD20 mAbs with improved therapeutic efficacy. Although Fc-FcγR interactions appear to underlie much of the therapeutic success with rituximab, certain type II anti-CD20 mAbs efficiently induce programmed cell death (PCD), whereas r ...[more]