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. 2025 Oct 1;214(10):2489-2491.
doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkaf163.

Great "Tex"-pectations

Grace A Ward  1 , Ben Youngblood  1
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Great "Tex"-pectations

Grace A Ward et al. J Immunol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: CD8 T cell; Immunotherapy; PD-1; T-cell Exhaustion.

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Conflict of interest statement

B.Y. has patents (US11020430B2) related to DNMT3A gene disruption for immunotherapy and (US20220326216A1) related to epigenetic biomarkers of T cell differentiation.

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