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Murine retroviral bone marrow transplantation models for the study of human myeloproliferative disorders.
Current protocols in pharmacology - 1 Dec 2008
Gavrilescu L Cristina, Van Etten Richard A
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Human myeloproliferative diseases are common hematologic disorders characterized by clonal overproduction of maturing myeloid or erythroid cells, often caused by expression of a mutant, dysregulated tyrosine kinase (TK). These diseases can be accurately modeled in laboratory mice by the retroviral transfer of a mutant TK gene into murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, followed by transplantation of...
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