Increased serum levels of soluble CD44 standard, but not of variant isoforms v5 and v6, in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Leukemia

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 134-141

  De Rossi, G ^a   Marroni, P ^b   Paganuzzi, M ^b   Mauro, F R ^a   Tenca, C ^c   Zarcone, D ^c   Velardi, A ^d   Molica, S ^e   Grossi, C E ^b,c,e  

^a University of Rome   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d Catanzaro Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; B CLL; CD44

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0031043516     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2400525     Document Type: Article

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