Galectins as therapeutic targets for hematological malignancies: A hopeful sweetness

Annals of Translational Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Pena, Camilo ^a   Mirandola, Leonardo ^a,b   Figueroa, Jose A ^a,c   Hosiriluck, Nattamol ^a   Suvorava, Natallia ^a   Trotter, Kayley ^a,c   Reidy, Adair ^a,c   Rakhshanda, Rahman ^d   Payne, Drew ^a   Jenkins, Marjorie ^b   Grizzi, Fabio ^e   Littlefield, Lauren ^a,c   Chiriva Internati, Maurizio ^a,b,c   Cobos, Everardo ^a,c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Center for Women's Health and Gender Based Medicine   (United States)

^c Kiromic Inc   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galectin 3 (Gal 3); Galectins; Leukemia; Lymphomas; Multiple myeloma (MM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015484827     PISSN: 23055839     EISSN: 23055847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2305-5839.2014.09.14     Document Type: Article

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