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Investigational drugs targeting FLT3 for leukemia.
Expert opinion on investigational drugs - 1 Oct 2009
Ustun Celalettin, DeRemer David L, Jillella Anand P, Bhalla Kapil N
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FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 (FLT3) is a member of the class III membrane receptor tyrosine kinase family and is important in survival, proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic cells. FLT3 is mutated in approximately 30% of acute myelogenous leukemia patients. These mutations involve internal tandem duplications in the juxtamembrane domain of the receptor and tyrosine kinase point mutations in the...
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