Ex vivo characterization of polyclonal memory CD8+ T-cell responses to PRAME-specific peptides in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute and chronic myeloid leukemia.

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Published in Blood on November 06, 2008

Authors

Katayoun Rezvani1, Agnes S M Yong, Abdul Tawab, Behnam Jafarpour, Rhoda Eniafe, Stephan Mielke, Bipin N Savani, Keyvan Keyvanfar, Yixin Li, Roger Kurlander, A John Barrett

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Hematology, Imperial College, Hammersmith Campus, London, United Kingdom. k.rezvani@imperial.ac.uk

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