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Interleukin-6 functions as an intracellular growth factor in hairy cell leukemia in vitro.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Nov 1993
Barut B, Chauhan D, Uchiyama H, Anderson K C
Abstract excerpt
The role of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the growth of B cell derived hairy cell leukemia (HCL) was characterized. Purified hairy cells (HCs) did not increase DNA synthesis in vitro in response to exogenous IL-6; however, they expressed IL-6 receptor (IL-6R) mRNA and bound directly fluorochrome labeled IL-6. IL-6 mRNA was not detectable in tumor cells by Northern blotting, but was evident using PCR amplification....
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