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Non-malignant B cells and chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells induce a pro-survival phenotype in CD14+ cells from peripheral blood

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We would like to acknowledge Martina Seiffert, Danilo Allegra, Angela Philippen, Bettina Klohs, Lars Bullinger, Stefan Fröhling and Claudia Scholl for helpful discussions and Frederic Blond for the bioinformatics support. We would also like to acknowledge the excellent collaboration with Bernd Korn from the German Cancer Research Center core facility Genome and Proteome. This work was supported by funding from DJCLS SP 08/05, DJCLS R 06/13, the Helmholtz Alliance for Systems Biology and the Max-Eder-Nachwuchsgruppenprogramm of the Deutsche Krebshilfe (No. 107239).

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    N Bhattacharya, S Diener, I S Idler, J Rauen, A Habermann, T Zenz, H Döhner, S Stilgenbauer & D Mertens

  2. Institute of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    T F Barth & P Möller

  3. Cooperation Unit ‘Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis’, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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Bhattacharya, N., Diener, S., Idler, I. et al. Non-malignant B cells and chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells induce a pro-survival phenotype in CD14+ cells from peripheral blood. Leukemia 25, 722–726 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2010.306

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