Biology / Unit 13 Bio 3307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cancer Immune Evasion Mechanism
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The idea
Some cancer cells evade detection by suppressing surface markers that natural killer cells, per Bio 3271, and cytotoxic T cells use to spot abnormal cells.
In practice
A tumor cell reducing its MHC class I display, per Bio 3281, is harder to identify as abnormal.
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