Constitutive activation of FLT3 in acute myeloid leukaemia and its consequences for growth of 32D cells

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 322-330

  Fenski, ^a   Flesch, ^b   Serve, ^a,b   Mizuki, ^a   Oelmann, ^a   Kratz Albers, ^a   Kienast, ^a   Leo, ^a   Schwartz, ^b   Berdel, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

32D cells; Acute myeloid leukaemia; Flt3; Leukaemogenesis; Receptor tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BONE MARROW CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TANDEM REPEAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CELL DIVISION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

EID: 0000796896     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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