Cancer testis antigen vaccination affords long-term protection in a murine model of ovarian cancer.

Sperm protein (Sp17) is an attractive target for ovarian cancer (OC) vaccines because of its over-expression in primary as well as in metastatic lesions, at all stages of the disease. Our studies suggest that a Sp17-based vaccine can induce an enduring defense against OC development in C57BL/6 mice...

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Main Authors: Maurizio Chiriva-Internati, Yuefei Yu, Leonardo Mirandola, Marjorie R Jenkins, Caroline Chapman, Martin Cannon, Everardo Cobos, W Martin Kast
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2868870?pdf=render