these results in the light of previous reports on the inability of gd3 to elicit immune response in humans suggest that anti-gd3 antibodies found in the melanoma patients were induced by immunization with o-acgd3 and o-acgd3 present in the mcv would serve as an antigen source for gd3-targeted active specific immunotherapy of melanoma .
C0301872
immune response
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antigen