We thank ProfAlexander Rudensky (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York) for diphtheria toxin-treated Foxp3DrR mice. We thank Drs Zheng-Gang Liu (Cancer Research Institute, NIH) and Dan Wu (Yale University) for their comments on the manuseirpt. This work was supported by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program; 2014CB542300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81101330, 31271378 and 81250044), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2011013 and BK2012014) and the Research Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry of Health (201302018). This work was also supported by the program for New Century Excellent Talents in University from the Ministry of Education of China (NCET- 12-0261).
An increased population of CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the tumor-associated microenvi- ronment plays an important role in cancer immune evasion. However, the underlying mechanism remains uncle...
We thank Dr Daniel Wu (Yale University, USA) and Dr Zheng- Gang Liu (Cancer Research Institute, NIH, USA) for critical reading of the manuscript and discussion of data. This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (90813035, 30890044, 30771036, 30772484, 30725008, 30890032, 31071232, 31000323, and 90608010), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program 2006CB503909, 2007CB815701, 2007CB815703, 2007CB815705, and 2007CB815804; 863 Program 2006AA02Z177 and 2006AA10A121), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2008021).
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