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Bodyguards and assassins: Bcl‐2 family proteins and apoptosis control in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
21 Mar 2005
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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common B-cell malignancy in the Western world and exists as subtypes with very different clinical courses. CLL is generally described as a disease of failed apoptosis. Apoptosis resistance may stem from a combination of microenvironmental survival signals as well as from intrinsic alterations in the apoptotic machinery within the CLL cell. The molecular mechanism...
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