AIDS. Viruses, cytokines and Kaposi's sarcoma.
HIV infection strongly predisposes people to Kaposi's sarcoma, a complex proliferative lesion driven by autocrine and paracrine cytokine expression; new evidence implicates a second virus in the etiology of the disease.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departmentof Microbiology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco 94143, USA.
D000818:Animals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000502:physiology*; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000502:physiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000209:etiology* / Q000821:virology
D016207:Cytokines; D006133:Growth Substances