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A novel nonpeptidyl human c-Mpl activator stimulates human megakaryopoiesis and thrombopoiesis.
Blood - 1 Jun 2006
Nakamura Takanori, Miyakawa Yoshitaka, Miyamura Atsushi, Yamane Akiko, Suzuki Hidenori, Ito Mamoru, Ohnishi Yasuyuki, Ishiwata Norihisa, Ikeda Yasuo, Tsuruzoe Nobutomo
Abstract excerpt
NIP-004 is a novel synthetic compound developed to display human thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor (c-Mpl) agonist activity. NIP-004 displays species specificity, stimulating proliferation or differentiation of human c-Mpl-expressing cells such as UT-7/TPO and human CD34(+) cells but not murine c-Mpl-expressing cells or cynomolgus monkey cells. To test the mechanism of its action, we constructed mutant forms of...
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