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Divergent effects of supraphysiologic Notch signals on leukemia stem cells and hematopoietic stem cells.
Blood - 7 Feb 2013
Chiang Mark Y, Shestova Olga, Xu Lanwei, Aster Jon C, Pear Warren S
Abstract excerpt
The leukemia stem cell (LSC) hypothesis proposes that a subset of cells in the bulk leukemia population propagates the leukemia.We tested the LSC hypothesis in a mouse model of Notch-induced T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) in which the tumor cells were largely CD4+ CD8+ T cells. LSC activity was enriched but rare in the CD8+ CD4 HSA(hi) immature single-positive T-cell subset. Although our murine T-ALL...
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