Perturbation of the normal immune system in patients with CLL

Blood

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 573-581

  Forconi, Francesco ^a,b   Moss, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INNATE IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR ESCAPE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR BURDEN; TUMOR ESCAPE;

EID: 84940204465     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-03-567388     Document Type: Article

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