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SUBMITTER: Johannes Meyer
PROVIDER: BIOMD0000000865 | BioModels | 2019-11-18
REPOSITORIES: BioModels
Nikolaev Evgeni V EV Zloza Andrew A Sontag Eduardo D ED
Frontiers in immunology 20190128
It was recently reported that acute influenza infection of the lung promoted distal melanoma growth in the dermis of mice. Melanoma-specific CD8+ T cells were shunted to the lung in the presence of the infection, where they expressed high levels of inflammation-induced cell-activation blocker PD-1, and became incapable of migrating back to the tumor site. At the same time, co-infection virus-specific CD8+ T cells remained functional while the infection was cleared. It was also unexpectedly found ...[more]