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Establishment and characterization of B-like lymphoblastoid cell lines by long-term culture of primary explants from human myasthenic thymus.
Thymus - 1 Feb 1993
Vilquin J T, Braun S, Labouret P, Tranchant C, Hartmann D, Lombard Y, Goetz J, Urlacher A, Wihlm J M, Warter J M
Abstract excerpt
Using a simple method of long-term culture, it was possible to obtain B-like lymphoblastoid cell lines (LyCLs) from myasthenic thymuses. Successful cultures were carried out from 14 out of 15 hyperplastic thymuses and in 1 out of 3 myasthenic thymoma, whereas none of the 8 control thymuses, nor the 2 Myasthenia gravis-associated normally involuted thymuses, nor the Myasthenia gravis-associated lymphoma gave rise...
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