Tumour Specific Transplantation Antigens

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• tumour specific antigen — (= tumour specific transplantation antigen; TSTA) Antigen on tumour cells detected by cell mediated immunity. For virus transformed cells TSTA (unlike T antigen) is found to differ for different individual tumours induced by the same virus. May… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

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• TSTA — biomed. abbr. Tumour Specific Transplantation Antigens …   United dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms

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