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Data and implication based comparison of two chronic myeloid leukemia models.
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE - 1 Jan 2000
Everett R A, Zhao Y, Flores K B, Kuang Yang
Abstract excerpt
Chronic myeloid leukemia, a disorder of hematopoietic stem cells, is currently treated using targeted molecular therapy with imatinib. We compare two models that describe the treatment of CML, a multi-scale model (Model 1) and a simple cell competition model (Model 2). Both models describe the competition of leukemic and normal cells, however Model 1 also describes the dynamics of BCR-ABL, the oncogene targeted...
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