Study: Impediment to some cancer immunotherapy involves the free radical peroxynitrite
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues have found that tumor cell resistance to a specific cancer immunotherapy designed to kill cancer cells can be blamed on a mechanism that involves the production of a free radical peroxynitrite (PNT) that causes resistance to therapeutic cancer-killing cells.