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Suppression Of Anti-Tumor Immunity In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Via Interleukin-10 Production, Sara Alhakeem
Suppression Of Anti-Tumor Immunity In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Via Interleukin-10 Production, Sara Alhakeem
Theses and Dissertations--Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
The most common human leukemia is B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), which is characterized by a progressive accumulation of abnormal B-lymphocytes in blood, bone marrow and secondary lymphoid organs. Typically disease progression is slow, but as the number of leukemic cells increases, they interfere with the production of other important blood cells, causing the patients to be in an immunosuppressive state. To study the basis of this immunoregulation, we used cells from the transgenic Eμ-TCL1 mouse, which spontaneously develop B-CLL due to a B-cell specific expression of the oncogene, TCL1. Previously we showed that Eμ-TCL1 CLL cells constitutively …