Medical Definition of Tumour specific antigen

1. Antigen on tumour cells detected by cell-mediated immunity. For virus transformed cells TSTA (unlike T antigen) is found to differ for different individual tumours induced by the same virus. May consist of fragments of T antigens exposed at the cell surface. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumour Specific Antigen

tumour angiogenic factor
tumour antigens
tumour burden
tumour cell
tumour debulking
tumour embolism
tumour escape
tumour initiation
tumour lysis syndrome
tumour marker
tumour necrosis factor
tumour necrosis factor-beta
tumour progression
tumour promoter
tumour registry
tumour specific antigen (current term)
tumour stage
tumour stem cells
tumour suppressor
tumour virus
tumour virus infections
tumouraffin
tumoural calcinosis
tumoured
tumouricidal
tumourigeneses
tumourigenesis
tumourigenic
tumourigenicity

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