Similar MLL-associated leukemias arising from self-renewing stem cells and short-lived myeloid progenitors

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3029-3035

  Cozzio, Antonio ^a,b   Passegué, Emmanuelle ^a   Ayton, Paul M ^a   Karsunky, Holger ^a   Cleary, Michael L ^a   Weissman, Irving L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Leukemia; MLL; Myeloid progenitors; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUSION GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEM CELL; TISSUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GRANULOCYTES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELLS; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RETROVIRIDAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346100567     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1143403     Document Type: Article

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