Acquisition of full effector function in vitro paradoxically impairs the in vivo antitumor efficacy of adoptively transferred CD8+ T cells.

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Published in J Clin Invest on June 01, 2005

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Luca Gattinoni1, Christopher A Klebanoff, Douglas C Palmer, Claudia Wrzesinski, Keith Kerstann, Zhiya Yu, Steven E Finkelstein, Marc R Theoret, Steven A Rosenberg, Nicholas P Restifo

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1: Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1502, USA.

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