| Literature DB >> 2106569 |
T Blankenstein1, Z H Qin, W Q Li, T Diamantstein.
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To study the potential involvement of IL-6 in the development of plasmacytomas, a number of plasmacytoma lines were analyzed for alterations in the IL-6 locus. A DNA rearrangement due to the insertion of an intracisternal A particle retrotransposon 18 bp 5' of the transcriptional start site was detected in the cell line MPC11. The IL-6 gene is constitutively expressed in MPC11, suggesting the involvement of IL-6 in the development of certain myeloma/plasmacytomas according to the "autocrine growth hypothesis".Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2106569 PMCID: PMC2187786 DOI: 10.1084/jem.171.3.965
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Med ISSN: 0022-1007 Impact factor: 14.307