腫瘤浸潤淋巴細胞

腫瘤浸潤淋巴細胞(英語:Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes,縮寫TILs)是指已離開血液腫瘤組織遷移淋巴細胞,是腫瘤浸潤免疫細胞(英語:tumor-infiltrating immune cells)這個更大的概念的一部分,後者還包括單核細胞和分葉核的免疫細胞。腫瘤中浸潤的免疫細胞與臨床結果密切相關,可作為治療癌症的藥物靶標[1][2][3][4][5]

在免疫消除階段,免疫效應細胞(例如CTLNK細胞)可在免疫識別細胞(例如樹突狀細胞CD4+T細胞)的輔助下殺傷腫瘤細胞

參考資料

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