A team of researchers from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) has made a discovery about the defence strategies of breast cancer cells against the body's immune system.
Tumour cells can develop multiple strategies to protect themselves from the attacks of the immune system, which seeks to eliminate them. LIH researchers thus studied the defence strategies of breast cancer cells against so-called natural killer (NK) immune cells, discovering that some cancer cells are able to deploy a molecular shield that protects them from immune cells.
The NK cells, found in the immune system, can detect the abnormal characteristics of cancer cells by coming into contact with them and can release toxic substances to destroy them. In general, this attack kills cancer cells effectively and quickly. To ensure their survival and growth of the tumour, however, cancer cells are able to develop ingenious strategies to inhibit the immune system's reactions. These are the mechanisms that the team of Dr. Clément Thomas at LIH has tried to better understand to develop new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of cancer.
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A team of researchers from the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) has made a discovery about the defence strategies of breast cancer cells against the body's immune system.
Tumour cells can develop multiple strategies to protect themselves from the attacks of the immune system, which seeks to eliminate them. LIH researchers thus studied the defence strategies of breast cancer cells against so-called natural killer (NK) immune cells, discovering that some cancer cells are able to deploy a molecular shield that protects them from immune cells.
The NK cells, found in the immune system, can detect the abnormal characteristics of cancer cells by coming into contact with them and can release toxic substances to destroy them. In general, this attack kills cancer cells effectively and quickly. To ensure their survival and growth of the tumour, however, cancer cells are able to develop ingenious strategies to inhibit the immune system's reactions. These are the mechanisms that the team of Dr. Clément Thomas at LIH has tried to better understand to develop new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of cancer.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Research
https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=LIH
https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Cancer