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Dendritic cell vaccines in cancer immunotherapy: from biology to translational medicine

  • Hongmei Xu ,
  • Xuetao Cao
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  • National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology and Institute of Immunology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China

Published date: 05 Dec 2011

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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Hongmei Xu , Xuetao Cao . Dendritic cell vaccines in cancer immunotherapy: from biology to translational medicine[J]. Frontiers of Medicine, 0 , 5(4) : 323 -332 . DOI: 10.1007/s11684-011-0172-4

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