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Making a better antibody: all is not lost
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Making a better antibody: all is not lost

George J. Weiner
Blood, Vol.115(25), pp.5127-5128
06/24/2010
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-03-275206
PMID: 20576817
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Abstract

Effective anticancer therapy requires effective targeting of the malignant cells. In this issue of Blood, Beers and colleagues demonstrate that rituximab-induced loss of CD20 from the surface of B cells may explain why rituximab is more effective in some B-cell malignancies, such as follicular lymphoma, than in others like CLL.1 They also provide evidence that anti-CD20 mAb, designated type II anti-CD20 mAb, induce considerably less down-modulation of CD20 than rituximab, and therefore could be more effective therapeutically.

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