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We thank Brigitte Wollert-Wulf, Mandy Terne, Franziska Hummel, Erika Berg and Stefanie Mende for excellent technical assistance. This work was supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB-TRR54; JA 1847/1-1) and the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (Charité/MDC, Berlin).
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Ullrich, K., Blumenthal-Barby, F., Lamprecht, B. et al. The IL-15 cytokine system provides growth and survival signals in Hodgkin lymphoma and enhances the inflammatory phenotype of HRS cells. Leukemia 29, 1213–1218 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.345
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