Studies on cytodiagnosis of stomach cancer, mainly on the relationship between exfoliated cells and histochmical findings of gastric biopsies

Relationship between Fas-ligand expressi

Relationship between Fas-ligand expression on carcinoma cell and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response in lymphoepithelioma-like cancer of the stomach

✍ Tohru Kume; Koichi Oshima; Yuichi Yamashita; Takayuki Shirakusa; Masahiro Kikuch 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 French ⚖ 810 KB

The Fas/Fas-ligand (Fas-L) system is involved in the induction of apoptosis and mediates T-cell cytotoxicity. We investigated the Fas/Fas-L system and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in 30 lymphoepithelioma-like cancer of the stomach (LECS) in order to understand the immune evasion of the tumor cells