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Blocking the CD47-SIRPα interaction reverses the disease phenotype in a polycythemia vera mouse model.
Leukemia - 1 Jun 2023
Lysenko Veronika, Schürch Patrick M, Tuzlak Selma, van Wijk Nicole Wildner-Verhey, Kovtonyuk Larisa V, Becher Burkhard, Manz Markus G, Kreutmair Stefanie, Theocharides Alexandre P A
Abstract excerpt
Polycythemia vera (PV) is a hematopoietic stem cell neoplasm driven by somatic mutations in JAK2, leading to increased red blood cell (RBC) production uncoupled from mechanisms that regulate physiological erythropoiesis. At steady-state, bone marrow macrophages promote erythroid maturation, whereas splenic macrophages phagocytose aged or damaged RBCs. The binding of the anti-phagocytic ("don't eat me") CD47...
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