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Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA

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Immunology and Infection

Using the BLT Humanized Mouse as a Stem Cell based Gene Therapy Tumor Model
Dimitrios N. Vatakis 1,2,3, Gregory C. Bristol 1,2, Sohn G. Kim 1,2, Bernard Levin 1,2, Wei Liu 4, Caius G. Radu 4, Scott G. Kitchen 1,2,3, Jerome A. Zack 1,2,5
1Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2UCLA AIDS Institute, 3Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, 4Department of Medical and Molecular Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 5Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

The generation and characterization of tumor specific T cells using humanized mice is described here. Human thymic tissue and genetically modified human hematopoietic stem cells are transplanted into immunocompromised mice. This results in the reconstitution of an engineered human immune system allowing for in vivo examination of anti-tumor immune responses.

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