Implications of infectious diseases and the adrenal hypothesis for the etiology of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Acute leukemia is the most frequent cancer in children. Recently, a new hypothesis was proposed for the pathogenesis of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The so-called "adrenal hypothesis" emphasized the role of endogenous cortisol in the etiology of B-cell precursor ALL. The i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2010-03-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2010000300001 |