New strategies in acute myeloid leukemia: Redefining prognostic markers to guide therapy

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 5163-5171

  Khan, Irum ^a   Altman, Jessica K ^a   Licht, Jonathan D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

1 (1 CYANO 1 METHYLETHYL) 3 METHYL 8 (3 QUINOLINYL)IMIDAZO[4,5 C]QUINOLIN 2(1H,3H) ONE; 2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; 4 (4 AMINO 5 (7 METHOXY 1H INDOL 2 YL)IMIDAZO[5,1 F][1,2,4]TRIAZIN 7 YL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID; 5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; CYTARABINE; DASATINIB; DAUNORUBICIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENTINOSTAT; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; IDARUBICIN; IMATINIB; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 2; LESTAURTINIB; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN INHIBITOR; MICRORNA; MIDOSTAURIN; MOCETINOSTAT; ONCOPROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; QUIZARTINIB; RAPAMYCIN; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; SELUMETINIB; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; UNINDEXED DRUG; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA CELL; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ONCOGENE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; STROMA CELL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

APOPTOSIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FMS-LIKE TYROSINE KINASE 3; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; PROGNOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84866911128     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-0313     Document Type: Article

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