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BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY
Volume 143, Issue 3, Pages 383-386Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07363.x
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chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; T-cells; telomere length; immunosenescence; microenvironment
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- Bernese Cancer League
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In contrast to other B-cell neoplasias, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is characterized by increased non-leukaemic T-cells. In order to assess their replicative history, telomere length was analyzed in subsets of leucocytes from CLL patients. Naive and memory T-cells from ZAP-70(+)/CD38(+) patients exhibited significantly shorter average telomere lengths than ZAP-70(-)/CD38(-) patients. Compared to the age-related percentiles of telomere length values from healthy individuals practically all values of the naive and memory T-cells from the ZAP-70(+)/CD38(+) CLL patients fell below the 50th percentile. This indicated an extensive expansion and a role for T-cells in ZAP-70(+)/CD38(+) CLL patients.
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