Article
Combined Arsenic and Retinoic Acid Treatment Enhances Differentiation and Apoptosis in Arsenic-Resistant NB4 Cells
1 Jun 1998
Abstract excerpt
In the acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cell line NB4, as well as in APL patients' cells, arsenic trioxide (As2O3) leads to incomplete cell maturation, induction of apoptosis, as well as to the degradation of the oncogenic PML/RARalpha fusion protein. We have isolated an arsenic-resistant NB4 subline (NB4-AsR), which fails to undergo apoptosis, but maintains the partial differentiation response to this drug....
