Demonstration of antibodies to human T-cell lymphotropic virus-I tax in patients with the cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, mycosis fungoides, who are seronegative for antibodies to the structural proteins of the virus

Blood

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3004-3009

  Pancake, Bette A ^a   Wassef, Emil H ^a   Zucker Franklin, Dorothea ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; DNA; GAG PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; TAX PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

EID: 0029969091     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v88.8.3004.bloodjournal8883004     Document Type: Article

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