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Featured article: Fighting cancer with the immune system
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Studies have shown the immune system has the potential to remove tumor cells in a patient’s body. This article describes a method for generating antitumor cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for the epitopes of the HER2/neu tumor-associated antigen. These CTLs are then shown to have a pronounced cytotoxic effect on tumor cells expressing the HER2/neu marker.
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BMC Immunology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in molecular, cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional, and developmental aspects of the immune system as well as clinical studies and animal models of human diseases.
Editor
- Linda Gummlich, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Simon R Carding, University of East Anglia
- Lucienne Chatenoud, Hospital Necker
- Olivier Garraud, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine
- James Li, University of Hong Kong
- J Philip McCoy, National Institutes of Health
- Wayne Thomas, Institute for Child Health Research
Meet the Editors
Professor Wayne Thomas graduated with a PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1974. In 1984, he began a program at the Telethon Kids Institute in Western Australia to provide the structural data of house dust mite allergens. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Immunology in 2012.
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Citation Impact
2.615 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.646 - 5-year Impact Factor
0.739 - SNIP (Source-Normalized Impact per Paper)
0.993 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)Usage
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