Immunogenic cell death in cancer and infectious disease

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 97 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2016.107 Authors: Lorenzo Galluzzi, Aitziber Buqué, Oliver Kepp, Laurence Zitvogel & Guido Kroemer Immunogenicity depends on two key factors: antigenicity and adjuvanticity. The presence of exogenous or mutated antigens explains why infected cells and malignant cells can initiate an adaptive immune response provided that the cells also emit adjuvant signals as a consequence of cellular stress and death.
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