Article
Evaluation of tyrosine-kinase receptor c-KIT (c-KIT) mutations, mRNA and protein expression in canine leukemia: might c-KIT represent a therapeutic target?
Veterinary immunology and immunopathology - 15 Apr 2013
Giantin M, Aresu L, Aricò A, Gelain M E, Riondato F, Martini V, Comazzi S, Dacasto M
Abstract excerpt
The tyrosine-kinase receptor c-KIT (c-KIT) plays an important role in proliferation, survival and differentiation of progenitor cells in normal hematopoietic cells. In human hematological malignancies, c-KIT is mostly expressed by progenitor cell neoplasia and seldom by those involving mature cells. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are actually licensed for the first- and second-line treatment of human...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Case-Control Studies
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dog Diseases
- Dogs
- Exons
- Female
- Humans
- Leukemia
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
