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Arsenic but not all-trans retinoic acid overcomes the aberrant stem cell capacity of PML/RAR -positive leukemic stem cells
1 Mar 2007
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Stem cells play an important role in the pathogenesis and maintenance of most malignant tumors. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a stem cell disease. The inefficient targeting of the leukemic stem cells (LSC) is considered responsible for relapse after the induction of complete hematologic remission (CR) in AML. Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a subtype of AML characterized by the...
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