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A dendritic-cell brake on antitumour immunity

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Activation of a cellular stress response and the transcription factor XBP1 in dendritic cells has now been shown to limit the cells' ability to stimulate antitumour immune responses in a mouse model of ovarian cancer.

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Figure 1: XBP1 activation inhibits presentation of tumour antigens.

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Merad, M., Salmon, H. A dendritic-cell brake on antitumour immunity. Nature 523, 294–295 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/523294a

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