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This research was performed by TRR in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Immunology Program of the University of Iowa. We thank Kristin Ness for expert mouse husbandry. This work was supported in part by NIH Predoctoral Training Grant 5T32 AI007485 (TRR), by the Intramural Research Program of the NIAID (to HCM), by NCI Core Grant P30CA086862 in support of The University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, by a Senior Research Award from the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (to SJ), by a research award from the International Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation (to SJ), by a NCI P50CA097274 career development award (to SJ), and by R01CA151354 from the NCI (to SJ).
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Rosean, T., Tompkins, V., Olivier, A. et al. The tumor microenvironment is the main source of IL-6 for plasma cell tumor development in mice. Leukemia 29, 233–237 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.260
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