Cancer cells usually use camouflage techniques to escape the immune system attacks. But scientists have developed, can now stripped of cancer cell camouflage, with the immune system to fight cancer cells.
In the human immune system, there is a regulatory T cells that regulate the immune system and prevent it from overreacting. Under normal circumstances, the immune system will automatically identify and attack bacteria, viruses and other foreign intruders, but also inevitably have made mistakes. When the immune system to determine the mistakes, began to attack the body itself, the regulatory T cells will act as a security guard role, to prevent the "oolong event" occurred.
However, this function of regulatory T cells is used by cancer cells. In order to escape the immune system attacks, cancer cells will usually be involved in the regulation of T cells around, so that the immune system is difficult to identify and attack the "sheep" sheep.
In the treatment of cancer, it has long been known that the important role of regulatory T cells, but close the regulatory T cells or take them away from the cancer cells is a problem, because the regulatory T cells and immune cells are very similar to the use of drugs Close the regulation of T cells is prone to accidental injury, but affect the immune cells on cancer cells resistance.
Researchers at the Helmholtz Infection Research Center in Germany, however, have now found a way to quickly identify and shut down regulatory T cells in blood or tumor tissue. Experiments show that in a gene implanted in the experimental mice, the experimental mice in the regulatory T cells will stop working, so that the original cancer cells exposed. Then the immune system began to attack cancer cells, the tumor has been formed significantly reduced.
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