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Go to the second page "Perhaps equally exciting, Dr. Isenberg and his team found that while his technique protected healthy cells from damage, it actually incr

Go to the second page "Perhaps equally exciting, Dr. Isenberg and his team found that while his technique protected healthy cells from damage, it actually increased the effectiveness of radiation treatments on cancer cells."

bedris 16y ago
This could also be due to the fact that CD47 blockade allows preferential phagocytosis of cancer cells by macrophages [1,2] so it might not be solely radiation sensitivity that is leading to the clearance of the tumor cells. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19632179 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19632179 [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19632178 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19632178