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Molecular pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Current molecular medicine - 1 Sept 2006
Danilov Alexey V, Danilova Olga V, Klein Andreas K, Huber Brigitte T
Abstract excerpt
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is unique among malignancies since it represents an accumulation of B-lymphocytes resistant to apoptosis. Several factors are thought to confer this unusual feature to a CLL B-cell. Misbalance between cytoplasmic pro-survival and pro-death molecules, such as Bcl-2, Mcl-1 and alike, appears to be one of the key factors defining B-cell longevity. Autocrine pathways, such as...
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