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Persistence of leukemia-initiating cells in a conditional knockin model of an imatinib-responsive myeloproliferative disorder.
Cancer cell - 4 Aug 2009
Oravecz-Wilson Katherine I, Philips Steven T, Yilmaz Omer H, Ames Heather M, Li Lina, Crawford Brendan D, Gauvin Alice M, Lucas Peter C, Sitwala Kajal, Downing James R, Morrison Sean J, Ross Theodora S
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Despite remarkable responses to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib, CML patients are rarely cured by this therapy perhaps due to imatinib refractoriness of leukemia-initiating cells (LICs). Evidence for this is limited because of poor engraftment of human CML-LICs in NOD-SCID mice and nonphys...
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