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In human B- and T-differentiated lymphoid cell lines DMSO was found to arrest the proliferation at the G1 stage of the cell cycle, without any detectable differentiation and DMSO itself was found to prevent apoptosis. Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, is now thought to be an important regulatory process in normal hemopoiesis and in the lymphoid system this program is started in the immune process...