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Reduced Folate Carrier Expression in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Mechanism for Ploidy but not Lineage Differences in Methotrexate Accumulation
1 Mar 1999
Abstract excerpt
Methotrexate (MTX) is one of the most active and widely used agents for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). To elucidate the mechanism for higher accumulation of MTX polyglutamates (MTX-PG) in hyperdiploid ALL and lower accumulation in T-lineage ALL, expression of the reduced folate carrier (RFC) was assessed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in ALL blasts isolated from newly...
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