Differentiation of t(5;17) variant acute promyelocytic leukemic blasts by all-trans retinoic acid

Leukemia

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1014-1016

  Redner, R L ^a,b   Corey, S J ^b,c   Rush, E A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute promyelocytic leukemia; Chromosomal translocation; NPM RAR; Nucleophosmin; Retinoic acid; Retinoic acid receptor

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; TIOGUANINE;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 17; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 5; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030739980     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2400661     Document Type: Article

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