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Abnormal in vitro proliferation and differentiation of T cell colony-forming cells in patients with tropical spastic paraparesis/human T lymphocyte virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myeloencephalopathy and healthy HTLV-I carriers.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 1 Mar 1993
Lunardi-Iskandar Y, Gessain A, Lam V H, Gallo R C
Abstract excerpt
T cell colonies were generated from the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of 10 patients with tropical spastic paraparesis/human T lymphocyte virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myeloencephalopathy (TSP/HAM), two healthy HTLV-I carriers, and 17 healthy HTLV-I-seronegative subjects. PBMC were cultured in methylcellulose in the absence of added growth factors (spontaneous T cell colonies), or in the presence...
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