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Modeling Human Leukemia Immunotherapy in Humanized Mice.
EBioMedicine - 1 Aug 2016
Xia Jinxing, Hu Zheng, Yoshihara Satoshi, Li Yuying, Jin Chun-Hui, Tan Shulian, Li Wei, Chen Qingfeng, Sykes Megan, Yang Yong-Guang
Abstract excerpt
The currently available human tumor xenograft models permit modeling of human cancers in vivo, but in immunocompromised hosts. Here we report a humanized mouse (hu-mouse) model made by transplantation of human fetal thymic tissue plus hematopoietic stem cells transduced with a leukemia-associated fusion gene MLL-AF9. In addition to normal human lymphohematopoietic reconstitution as seen in non-leukemic hu-mice,...
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