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Phenotypic and functional changes induced at the clonal level in hematopoietic stem cells after 5-fluorouracil treatment.
Blood - 15 May 1997
Randall T D, Weissman I L
Abstract excerpt
A significant fraction of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have been shown to be resistant to the effects of cytotoxic agents such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), which is thought to eliminate many of the rapidly dividing, more committed progenitors in the bone marrow and to provide a relatively enriched population of the most primitive hematopoietic progenitor cells. Although differences between 5-FU-enriched...
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