Expression of type III receptor tyrosine kinases FLT3 and KIT and responses to their ligands by acute myeloid leukemia blasts

Leukemia

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1584-1591

  Stacchini, A ^a,c   Fubini, L ^a   Severino, A ^a   Sanavio, F ^a   Aglietta, M ^b   Piacibello, W ^a  

^a Politecnic of Torino   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c Clinica Medica I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Flow cytometry; FLT3; KIT; Myeloid leukemia

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; LIGAND; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; ONCOGENE C KIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING;

EID: 0029784916     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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