The evolving landscape in the therapy of acute myeloid leukemia

Protein and Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 735-746

  Peloquin, Grace L ^a   Chen, Yi Bin ^a   Fathi, Amir T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myeloid leukemia; FLT3; gemtuzumab ozogamicin; hypomethylating

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AEG 35156; ALISERTIB; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; AZACITIDINE; BARASERTIB; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; CD135 ANTIGEN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; IDARUBICIN; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICRORNA; QUIZARTINIB; RETINOIC ACID; X LINKED INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA GENE; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COMORBIDITY; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FLT3 GENE; FUSION GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOSOMY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELOBLAST; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEOPHOSMIN GENE; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ELAFIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-PIM-1; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84887553781     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-013-3057-2     Document Type: Review

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