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Autonomous megakaryocyte growth in essential thrombocythemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis is not related to a c-mpl mutation or to an autocrine stimulation by Mpl-L.
Blood - 1 Jan 1999
Taksin A L, Couedic J P, Dusanter-Fourt I, Massé A, Giraudier S, Katz A, Wendling F, Vainchenker W, Casadevall N, Debili N
Abstract excerpt
Essential thrombocythemia (ET) and idiopathic myelofibrosis (PMF) are two myeloproliferative diseases characterized by a marked megakaryocytic (MK) involvement. The pathogenesis of these two diseases is unknown. Recently it has been shown that overexpression of Mpl-ligand (Mpl-L) in mice induces thrombocytosis and myelofibrosis. In this study, we investigated whether Mpl-L was responsible for the pathogenesis of...
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