Expansion of Natural Killer Cells in Peripheral Blood in a Japanese Elderly with Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1-Related Skin Lesions

• Hauptverfasser: Shinsaku Imashuku (Verfasst von), Naoko Kudo (Verfasst von), Kagekatsu Kubo (Verfasst von), Kouichi Ohshima (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Hindawi Limited, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Natural killer (NK) cells were proposed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1- (HTLV-1-) associated neurologic disease. Our patient was a 77-year-old Japanese man, who had been treated for infective dermatitis associated with HTLV-1 for nearly 10 yea...