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Splenic Marginal Zone Granulocytes Acquire an Accentuated Neutrophil B-Cell Helper Phenotype in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
Cancer research - 15 Sept 2016
Gätjen Marcel, Brand Franziska, Grau Michael, Gerlach Kerstin, Kettritz Ralph, Westermann Jörg, Anagnostopoulos Ioannis, Lenz Peter, Lenz Georg, Höpken Uta E, Rehm Armin
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Recruitment of tumor-associated macrophages and neutrophils (TAM and TAN) to solid tumors contributes to immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment; however, their contributions to lymphoid neoplasms are less clear. In human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), tumor B cells lodge in lymph nodes where interactions with the microenvironment occur. Tumor cell homing stimulates proliferation, such that...
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