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Spontaneous development of plasmacytoid tumors in mice with defective Fas-Fas ligand interactions.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 1 Jun 1998
Davidson W F, Giese T, Fredrickson T N
Abstract excerpt
B cell malignancies arise with increased frequency in aging individuals and in patients with genetic or acquired immunodeficiency (e.g., AIDS) or autoimmune diseases. The mechanisms of lymphomagenesis in these individuals are poorly understood. In this report we investigated the possibility that mutations at the Fas (lpr) and Fasl (gld) loci, which prevent Fas-mediated apoptosis and cause an early onset benign...
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