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Production of functionally deficient dendritic cells from HTLV-I-infected monocytes: implications for the dendritic cell defect in adult T cell leukemia.
Virology - 15 Aug 2000
Makino M, Wakamatsu S, Shimokubo S, Arima N, Baba M
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Adult T cell leukemia (ATL) is induced by an infection with human T lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) and is accompanied by immunodeficiency. Monocyte-derived immature dendritic cells (DCs) donated by 11 ATL patients were suppressed in the ability to take up fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran and were down-regulated in the expression of CD1a and CD86 antigens (Ags). Monocytes from the patients showed...
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