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B-cell receptor pathway inhibitors affect CD20 levels and impair antitumor activity of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies

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This work was supported by the National Science Center grant 2012/07/B/NZ6/03498 (MW), the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant IP2011 060271 (MW), the European Commission 7th Framework Programme: FP7-REGPOT-2012-CT2012-316254-BASTION (JG), and the Medical University of Warsaw grant 1M19/PM12D/13 (KB).

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Bojarczuk, K., Siernicka, M., Dwojak, M. et al. B-cell receptor pathway inhibitors affect CD20 levels and impair antitumor activity of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies. Leukemia 28, 1163–1167 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.12

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