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Cultivated H-RS cells are resistant to CD95L-mediated apoptosis despite expression of wild-type CD95.
Experimental hematology - 1 Jan 2000
Re D, Hofmann A, Wolf J, Diehl V, Staratschek-Jox A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: In most cases of classic Hodgkin's disease (HD), Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (H-RS) cells clonally derive from germinal-center B cells. Within their rearranged immunoglobulin genes, somatic mutations rendering potentially functional immunoglobulin gene rearrangements nonfunctional were detected, indicating that H-RS cells do not express a B-cell receptor. Under physiologic conditions, these cells would...
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