Disruption of VISTA plays an important role in regulating immune response

Monday, April 7, 2014 - 15:01 in Health & Medicine

The body’s immune system response was enhanced in a study when researchers disrupted VISTA, a protein that prevents the immune system from overreacting. Understanding how checkpoint regulators like VISTA function is important to cancer researchers, who hope to use the immune system to attack tumors.

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