Folliculotropic Mycosis Fungoides with Skewed T-cell Receptor CDR3 Motif: Suggestive of Lipid-antigen Selection?

• Main Authors: Panagiota Mantaka (Author), Agnieszka Malecka (Author), Gunhild Trøen (Author), Per Helsing (Author), Petter Gjersvik (Author), Klaus Beiske (Author), Jan Delabie (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Medical Journals Sweden, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Folliculotropic mycosis fungoides (FMF), a variant of mycosis fungoides (MF) with distinct clinical features, is characterized by infiltration of malignant T cells in hair follicles. This raises the hypothesis that antigens in the hair follicle may contribute to the pathogenesis of FMF. T-cell recep...