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Flt3 receptor tyrosine kinase as a drug target in leukemia.
Current pharmaceutical design - 1 Jan 2004
Schmidt-Arras Dirk, Schwäble Joachim, Böhmer Frank-D, Serve Hubert
Abstract excerpt
The hematopoietic class III receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) Flt3 (Flk2, STK1) has recently received much attention as a potential drug target. Activation of Flt3 by different types of mutations plays an important role for proliferation, resistance to apoptosis, and prevention of differentiation of leukemic blasts in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). At least one type of such mutations - an internal tandem duplication...
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