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Indolinone derivatives inhibit constitutively activated KIT mutants and kill neoplastic mast cells.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Feb 2000
Ma Y, Carter E, Wang X, Shu C, McMahon G, Longley B J
Abstract excerpt
Mastocytosis is a neoplastic disease caused at least in part by somatic mutations of the c-KIT proto-oncogene resulting in constitutive activation of its protein product, KIT, the receptor tyrosine kinase for stem cell factor. KIT stimulates mast cell proliferation and prevents apoptosis of neoplastic mast cells. To develop potential therapies for mastocytosis we used indolinones, small molecules that inhibit...
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