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Demonstration of immune responses against devil facial tumour disease in wild Tasmanian devils

Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) is a recently emerged fatal transmissible cancer decimating the wild population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). Biting transmits the cancer cells and the tumour develops in the new host as an allograft. The literature reports that immune escape mechanis...

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Autores principales: Pye, Ruth, Hamede, Rodrigo, Siddle, Hannah V., Caldwell, Alison, Knowles, Graeme W., Swift, Kate, Kreiss, Alexandre, Jones, Menna E., Lyons, A. Bruce, Woods, Gregory M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5095191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28120799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0553