Abstract

Introduction

The danger of non-lytic viruses

T cells kill virally-silenced bystanders

Do T cells discover aberration with FasL?

Danger receptors on T cells

A self-referential danger model

Why reference targets should be syngeneic

Superantigens and killer T cells

Dendritic cells and early viral proteins

Peripheral tolerance

Implications for cancer immunotherapy

Reference cells and tumor tolerance

Virally based cancer immunotherapy

References


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