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How does hiv cause polyclonal cell activation?
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B-cells: The ways in which HIV and hiv-infected immune cells cause overgrowth of uninfected b-cells, making them divide (polyclonal) and overfunction (polyclonal gammopathy, b-cell quasi-lymphomas) are coming to be known and are hugely complex. Best recent review http://www.Nature.Com/nri/journal/v9/n4/execsumm/nri2524.Html.
Answered 2/23/2018
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