Article
[Hodgkin's disease: biology can help the physician towards new prognostic factors and new therapeutic approaches].
Bulletin du cancer - 1 Nov 2001
Rubio M T, Ghesquières H, Blay J Y, Salles G
Abstract excerpt
Hodgkin's disease is a lymphoma pathology characterized, histology wise, by the presence of rare tumoral cells, known as Reed-Sternberg cells, in a polymorph, inflammatory and reactive cell environment. Recent studies in molecular biology have shown that the Reed-Sternberg cell is mainly derived from a post germinal B lymphoid cell. Reed-Sternberg cell is also known to express characteristic molecules of an...
Topics
- Apoptosis
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cytokines
- Genotype
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Hodgkin Disease
- Humans
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunity, Cellular
- Infectious Mononucleosis
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Phenotype
- Prognosis
- Reed-Sternberg Cells
- T-Lymphocytes
