Concise review: Leukemia stem cells in personalized medicine

Stem Cells

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 844-851

  Guzman, Monica L ^a   Allan, John N ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myelogenous leukemia; Hematopoietic stem cells; Leukemia stem cells; Molecular targeted therapies; Translational medicine

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; NF-KAPPA B; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 84896361704     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: 15494918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1597     Document Type: Article

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