CD47

Stanford is going to start a clinical trial on CD47

All cells have CD47 on in their walls... but cancer cells have tones of it.

http://stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47/

http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/may/cd47.html

Great article

http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2012summer/article7.html

http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130417/srep01673/full/srep01673.html

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/03/20/1121629109.full.pdf

http://patents.justia.com/inventor/shigeyuki-iijima

thrombospondin-1 is a ligand for CD47 and disregulation of c-Myc in some cancers bypass regulation by CD47

http://home.ccr.cancer.gov/inthejournals/itj-kaur.asp

"Together these studies have revealed CD47 and its ligand, thrombospondin-1, to be potent regulators of cell growth, differentiation, and survival via c-Myc."

CD47 - blocking thrombospondin-1 stops damage from radiation!?!?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091021144246.htm