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Enrichment of Sca1+ hematopoietic progenitors in polycythemic mice inhibits leukemogenesis.
Blood - 27 Aug 2009
Usenko Tatiana, Li You-Jun, Haeri Mehran, Li Yanmei, Vecchiarelli-Federico Laura M, Zhao Xiaojun, Prchal Josef T, Ben-David Yaacov
Abstract excerpt
Polycythemia vera (PV) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by a pronounced increase in the number of erythroid cells. However, despite this aberrant proliferation, the incidence of erythroleukemia is paradoxically rare in PV patients. In this study, we show that the progression of Friend virus-induced erythroleukemia is delayed in a mouse model of primary familial congenital polycythemia in which the...
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