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Autoantigen inhibits apoptosis of a human B cell leukemia that produces pathogenic rheumatoid factor.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Dec 1993
Kobayashi R, Rassenti L Z, Meisenholder G, Carson D A, Kipps T J
Abstract excerpt
We studied a variant CD5- B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cell population that produces pathologic IgM kappa rheumatoid factor autoantibodies. In contrast to common CD5+ B cell CLL, this variant leukemia cell population displays intraclonal diversity in its expressed Ig V genes, similar to that noted for follicular B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Also, in contrast to common B cell CLL, these leukemia...
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