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Immunostimulation and immunoinhibition of premalignant lesionsRichmond T Prehn
Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 4:6. 2007..The immune reaction may be either stimulatory or inhibitory to tumor growth, depending upon the local ratio of immune reactants to tumor cells...
Does the immune reaction cause malignant transformation by disrupting cell-to-cell or cell-to-matrix communications?Richmond T Prehn
Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 4:16. 2007..There is even some evidence suggesting that transformation in vivo may seldom occur in the absence of immunostimulation of the premalignant lesion. Positive selection by the immune reaction may be the reason that tumors are immunogenic...
Whipsaw cancer treatments: the role of hormesis in endocrine and immune therapiesRichmond T Prehn
Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Semin Oncol 33:708-10. 2006..We suggest that the phenomenon of hormesis might be used to keep a tumor under hormonal and/or immunologic environments that are inimical to its growth and well-being...
An immune reaction may be necessary for cancer developmentRichmond T Prehn
Theor Biol Med Model 3:6. 2006..Instead, the higher level of immune response in a normal animal, even if it does not rise to tumor-inhibitory levels, probably gives less positive support to tumor growth. This seems more than a semantic distinction...
The epigenetic instruction manual for the operation of the genomeR T Prehn
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Med Hypotheses 58:177-81. 2002..The increasing concentration after puberty might tend to activate the genome in reverse order and thus contribute to senescence...
The paradoxical effects of splenectomy on tumor growthRichmond T Prehn
Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 3:23. 2006..Sometimes splenectomy seems to inhibit tumor growth, but in other cases it seems, paradoxically, to facilitate both oncogenesis and the growth of established tumors...
The flip side of immune surveillance: immune dependencyRichmond T Prehn
Department of Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Immunol Rev 222:341-56. 2008..This knowledge may help to explain some clinical observations concerning the relationships among tumor types and the organ distribution of metastases...
Immunologgical self-tolerance in allophenic and embryo-aggregated miceRichmond T Prehn
Dept of Pathology, University of Washington, 5433 South Hudson St, Seattle, WA 98118, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 7:38. 2010....
