[HTML][HTML] Peripheral blood T-cell fitness is diminished in patients with pancreatic carcinoma but can be improved with homeostatic cytokines

J Xu, H Sai, Y Li, AC Jordan… - Cellular and …, 2019 - cmghjournal.org
Patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (n= 15) and healthy volunteers
(n= 13) were enrolled at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, PA). All patient samples were obtained after written informed consent was
obtained. Peripheral blood samples were collected by elutriation or Ficoll centrifugation and
cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen until analysis. The study was approved by the institutional
review board of the University of Pennsylvania and conducted in accordance with the 1996 …