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Targeting Bcl-2 for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
Leukemia - 1 Sept 2018
Touzeau Cyrille, Maciag Paulo, Amiot Martine, Moreau Philippe
Abstract excerpt
Despite advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma, the disease still remains incurable for the majority of patients. The overexpression of anti-apoptotic proteins (i.e., Bcl-2, Bcl-XL or Mcl-1) is a hallmark of cancer and favors tumor cell survival and resistance to therapy. The oral drug venetoclax is the first-in-class Bcl-2-specific BH3 mimetic. In myeloma, in vitro sensitivity to venetoclax is mainly...
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