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What does PEL stand for?

Primary Effusion Lymphoma


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Another study published in the journal Blood on June 4 looked for the presence of tumour suppressor mRNAs in primary effusion lymphoma and Kaposi's Sarcoma.
Using a KSHV-infected primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) tumour cell line (BCBL1), cell uptake assays with [sup.
Human herpesvirus 8 (also known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus) is a member of the gammaherpesvirus family, and this virus has been identified in Kaposi sarcoma, (20) primary effusion lymphoma,21 and in patients with multicentric Castleman disease.
Human herpes virus 8 is associated with several malignant disorders, such as Kaposi's sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma and Castleman's disease.
Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) has been recently identified as a distinct subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma associated with infection of the neoplastic lymphoid cells by the Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8).
[13] HHV-8 is the most recently described human herpesvirus to infect humans and has been consistently associated with Kaposi sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and a subset of multicentric Castleman disease.

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