Kaposi's sarcoma tumor cells preferentially express Bcl-xL.

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Published in Am J Pathol on September 01, 1996

Authors

K E Foreman1, T Wrone-Smith, L H Boise, C B Thompson, P J Polverini, P L Simonian, G Nunez, B J Nickoloff

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1: Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA.

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