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High proportion of CD34+/CD38-cells is positively correlated with poor prognosis in newly diagnosed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Mar 2014
Long Juan, Liu Shan, Li Kang, Zhou Xiaoyan, Zhang Penghui, Zou Lin
Abstract excerpt
The CD34+/CD38- immunophenotype is used to identify candidate hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and leukemia-initiating cells (LICs). However, the clinical significance of the CD34+/CD38-proportion in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is not well established. Here, we found that a high proportion of CD34+/CD38- cells from 112 patients with childhood ALL was negatively correlated with the outcome. Also...
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