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A patient with mycosis fungoides was treated effectively with the immunosuppressant cyclosporine A. Excretion of urinary neopterin, a marker of activation of the cellular immune system, fell immediately at the start of therapy. This result argues in support of a central role of activated T lymphocytes in this disease as has already been proposed by other authors.
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Wehrmann, W., Bauer, R., Fuchs, D. et al. Role of activated T lymphocytes in mycosis fungoides. Eur. J, Clin. Microbiol. 6, 210–211 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02018218
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