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Primitive, Quiescent and Difficult to Kill: The Role of Non-Proliferating Stem Cells in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
27 Nov 2006
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Recent studies have identified primitive, malignant stem cells which have entered the G0-phase of the cell cycle to become 'quiescent' and which are present, in small numbers, in all chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients. These cells have attracted intense scrutiny because they are proving exceptionally refractory to attempts to kill them, in vitro, using imatinib mesylate, the current first-line therapy for...
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