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SUBMITTER: Sponaas AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4444152 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sponaas Anne M AM Moen Siv H SH Liabakk Nina B NB Feyzi Emadoldin E Holien Toril T Kvam Solveig S Grøseth Lill Anny G LA Størdal Berit B Buene Glenn G Espevik Terje T Waage Anders A Standal Therese T Sundan Anders A
Immunity, inflammation and disease 20150302 2
Multiple myeloma is an incurable cancer with expansion of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow. Previous studies have shown that monocytes and macrophages in the bone marrow milieu are important for tumor growth and may play a role in the drug response. We therefore characterized monocytes in bone marrow aspirates by flow cytometry. We found that there was significant correlation between the proportion of CX3CR1 (+), CD16(+)CD14(dim) non classical monocytes, and percent plasma cells (PC) in ...[more]