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The role of B cell receptor stimulation in CLL pathogenesis.
Current pharmaceutical design - 1 Jan 2012
Kil Laurens P, Yuvaraj Saravanan, Langerak Anton W, Hendriks Rudi W
Abstract excerpt
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most frequent leukemia in adults in the Western world and is characterized by the accumulation of monoclonal CD5(+) mature B cells in the blood. The disease has a highly variable clinical course. CLL is subdivided into two disease subtypes, whereby leukemias with hypermutated immunoglobulin heavy chain variable (IGHV) genes have a more favorable prognosis than those with...
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