The lack of effective conventional therapies for the treatment of advanced stage melanoma has stimulated interest in the application of novel strategies for the treatment of patients with malignant… (More)
NKG2D, together with NKp46 and NKp30, represents a major triggering receptor involved in the induction of cytotoxicity by both resting and activated human natural killer cells. In this study, we… (More)
Changes in classical and nonclassical HLA class I antigen and NK cell-activating ligand expression have been identified in malignant lesions. These changes, which are described in this chapter, are… (More)
Scanty information is available about the mechanisms underlying HLA class I Ag abnormalities in malignant cells exposed to strong T cell-mediated selective pressure. In this study, we have… (More)
Poor clinical response rates have been observed in the majority of the T cell-based immunotherapy clinical trials conducted to date. One reason might be the presence of abnormalities in HLA class I… (More)
The revived cancer immune surveillance theory has emphasized the active role the immune system plays in eliminating tumor cells and in facilitating the emergence of their immunoresistant variants.… (More)
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) which have been deployed in computer networks to detect a wide variety of attacks are suffering how to manage of a large number of triggered alerts. Thus, reducing… (More)
In dealing with large datasets the reduced support vector machine (RSVM) was proposed for the practical objective to overcome the computational difficulties as well as to reduce the model complexity.… (More)
The potential role of HLA-G in tumor immune escape has stimulated interest in the analysis of HLA-G antigens in malignant cells. Malignant melanoma is the tumor which has been mostly analyzed for… (More)
In this study, the authors propose a new feature selection scheme, the incremental forward feature selection, which is inspired by incremental reduced support vector machines. In their method, a new… (More)