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Abstract
Blood lymphocytes from eight patients with chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) were stimulated by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA). The effect was defined as a pronounced increase of 3H-thymidine incorporation, and a concomitant blast transformation of a large portion of surface Ig-positive, E-rosette-forming (E-RFC) negative cells. E-RFC depletion reduced these effects to nearly background levels, and the pooled data strongly suggest that malignant B-lymphocytes in CLL are capable of responding to a PHA-induced T cell factor. A possible use for this factor in characterizing different subpopulations of CLL cells is discussed.Entities:
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Year: 1979 PMID: 315847 PMCID: PMC1537779
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Exp Immunol ISSN: 0009-9104 Impact factor: 4.330