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Preferential induction of apoptosis for primary human leukemic stem cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Dec 2002
Guzman Monica L, Swiderski Carol F, Howard Dianna S, Grimes Barry A, Rossi Randall M, Szilvassy Stephen J, Jordan Craig T
Abstract excerpt
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is typically a disease of stem progenitor cell origin. Interestingly, the leukemic stem cell (LSC) shares many characteristics with normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) including the ability to self-renew and a predominantly G(0) cell-cycle status. Thus, although conventional chemotherapy regimens often ablate actively cycling leukemic blast cells, the primitive LSC population...
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