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Towards superior dendritic-cell vaccines for cancer therapy

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Potent dendritic-cell cancer vaccines could be used to induce functional antitumour immunity without off-target toxicity.

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Fig. 1: Classical and newly discovered DC subsets.
Fig. 2: Expression of selected immune checkpoint factors on in vitro stimulated CD141+ DCs, MoDCs and pDCs.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health grants RO1CA201189, R01CA180913 and R01AI081848, the Cancer Research Institute and the Melanoma Research Alliance. N.B. is a member of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, which supports the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, Cancer Immunotherapy Program.

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