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The normal counterpart of IgD myeloma cells in germinal center displays extensively mutated IgVH gene, Cmu-Cdelta switch, and lambda light chain expression.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 20 Apr 1998
Arpin C, de Bouteiller O, Razanajaona D, Fugier-Vivier I, Brière F, Banchereau J, Lebecque S, Liu Y J
Abstract excerpt
Human myeloma are incurable hematologic cancers of immunoglobulin-secreting plasma cells in bone marrow. Although malignant plasma cells can be almost eradicated from the patient's bone marrow by chemotherapy, drug-resistant myeloma precursor cells persist in an apparently cryptic compartment. Controversy exists as to whether myeloma precursor cells are hematopoietic stem cells, pre-B cells, germinal center (GC)...
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