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Association of Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptors With Endemic Burkitt Lymphoma in Kenyan Children
2021-01-21
Abstract excerpt
Endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL) is an aggressive pediatric B cell lymphoma, common in Equatorial Africa. Co-infections with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Plasmodium falciparum, coupled with c-myc translocation are involved in eBL etiology. Infection-induced immune evasion mechanisms to avoid T cell cytotoxicity may increase the role of Natural killer (NK) cells in anti-tumor immunosurveillance. Killer immunoglobulin...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 684d720c-0412-5478-848a-a8743adad5c3
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-133965/v1
