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CD8-positive adult T-cell leukemia cells with an integrated defective HTLV-I genome show a paracrine growth to IL-2.
American journal of hematology - 1 Oct 1994
Matsushita K, Arima N, Hidaka S, Ohtsubo H, Fujiwara H, Fukumori J, Tanaka H
Abstract excerpt
We describe a 50-year-old man with adult T-cell leukemia complicated by laryngeal tuberculosis whose tumor cells proliferate in response to IL-2 in a paracrine manner. On admission, the patient's white blood cell count was 17,900/mm3; 73% were abnormal lymphocytes with convoluted nuclei. FACS analysis showed that the tumor cells were CD4-negative, CD8-positive T cells. Southern blot analysis of tumor cells...
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