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Detection of the Epstein-Barr virus in blood and bone marrow mononuclear cells ...
Marques, Herlander; Catarino, Raquel; Domingues, Nelson; Barros, Eliane; Portela, Catarina; Almeida, Maria Inês; Costa, Sandra; Reis, R. M.The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with a large spectrum of lymphoproliferative diseases. Traditional methods of EBV detection include the immunohistochemical identification of viral proteins and DNA probes to the viral genome in tumoral tissue. The present study explored the detection of the EBV genome, using the BALF5 gene, in the bone marrow or blood mononuclear cells of patients with diffuse large B...
The rs5743836 polymorphism in TLR9 confers a population-based increased risk of...
Carvalho, Agostinho; Cunha, Cristina; Almeida, A. J.; Osório, Nuno S.; Saraiva, Margarida; Coelho, Maria Teixeira; Pedreiro, Susana; Torrado, EgídioNon-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has been associated with immunological defects, chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. Given the link between immune dysfunction and NHL, genetic variants in toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been regarded as potential predictive factors of susceptibility to NHL. Adequate anti-tumoral responses are known to depend on TLR9 function, such that the use of its synthetic ligand is b...