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Interferon system in primary acute lymphocytic leukemia cells with or without deletions of the alpha-/beta-interferon genes.
Blood - 15 Apr 1992
Grandér D, Heyman M, Bröndum-Nielsen K, Liu Y, Lundgren E, Söderhäll S, Einhorn S
Abstract excerpt
Various aspects of the interferon (IFN) system were studied in malignant cells from 37 unselected patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). It was found that leukemic cells from two of 37 patients had a complete loss of alpha- and beta-IFN genes, whereas cells from four of 37 had lost one of the alpha-/beta-IFN alleles. In 25 cases, viable cells were also available for functional studies. Cell clones with...
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