These immune cells are extracted from the tumor tissue, treated in laboratory, and reinjected into the cancer patient. A state of nonresponsiveness to a particular antigen or group of antigens. Agents produced by plants and bacteria, normally very damaging to mammalian cells, that can be delivered directly to target cells by linking them to monoclonal antibodies or lymphokines. A substance that contains antigenic components from an infectious organism. Submicroscopic microbe that causes infectious disease.
Viruses can reproduce only in living cells.
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