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Kinetics of proviral DNA load, soluble interleukin-2 receptor level and tax expression in patients with adult T-cell leukemia receiving allogeneic stem cell transplantation

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This work was supported in part by grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. We are very grateful to Drs Yasuharu Ezumi and Yasunori Ueda (Kurashiki Central Hospital) for supplying blood samples from patients.

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Hishizawa, M., Imada, K., Ishikawa, T. et al. Kinetics of proviral DNA load, soluble interleukin-2 receptor level and tax expression in patients with adult T-cell leukemia receiving allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Leukemia 18, 167–169 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2403204

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