Chronic myeloid leukaemia as a model of disease evolution in human cancer

JV Melo, DJ Barnes - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) can be considered as a paradigm for neoplasias that
evolve through a multi-step process. CML is also one of the best examples of a disease that …

Therapeutic options for chronic myeloid leukemia: focus on imatinib (Glivec®, Gleevec™)

M Henkes, H van der Kuip… - Therapeutics and clinical …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Treatment options for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have changed dramatically during
the last decades. Interferon-α treatment and stem cell transplantation (SCT) clearly improved …

BCR-ABL suppresses C/EBPα expression through inhibitory action of hnRNP E2

D Perrotti, V Cesi, R Trotta, C Guerzoni, G Santilli… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
The arrest of differentiation is a feature of both chronic myelogenous leukemia cells in
myeloid blast crisis and myeloid precursors that ectopically express the p210BCR-ABL …

Bcr-Abl expression levels determine the rate of development of resistance to imatinib mesylate in chronic myeloid leukemia

DJ Barnes, D Palaiologou, E Panousopoulou… - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) starts with the acquisition of a BCR-ABL fusion gene in a
single hematopoietic stem cell, but the time to progression is unpredictable. Although the …

BCR/ABL kinase inhibition by imatinib mesylate enhances MAP kinase activity in chronic myelogenous leukemia CD34+ cells

S Chu, M Holtz, M Gupta, R Bhatia - Blood, 2004 - ashpublications.org
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) results from malignant transformation of a primitive
hematopoietic cell by the BCR/ABL oncogene. The breakpoint cluster region/ABL …

BCR-ABL down-regulates the DNA repair protein DNA-PKcs

E Deutsch, A Dugray, B AbdulKarim… - Blood, The Journal …, 2001 - ashpublications.org
This study demonstrates in both stable and inducible BCR-ABL–expressing hematopoietic
cells a down-regulation of the major mammalian DNA repair protein DNA-PKcs by BCR …

Expression of BCR/ABL and BCL-2 in myeloid progenitors leads to myeloid leukemias

S Jaiswal, D Traver, T Miyamoto… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Chronic myelogenous leukemia is a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) that, over time,
progresses to acute leukemia. Both processes are closely associated with the t (9; 22) …

Effect of tyrosine kinase inhibitor STI571 on the kinase activity of wild-type and various mutated c-kit receptors found in mast cell neoplasms

Y Zermati, P De Sepulveda, F Feger, S Letard… - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
Systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a rare disease caused by an abnormal mast cell
accumulation in various tissues. Two classes of constitutive activating c-kit mutations are …

Consequences of BCR‐ABL expression within the hematopoietic stem cell in chronic myeloid leukemia

JHS Kabarowski, ON Witte - Stem Cells, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) was the first human malignancy shown to be associated
with a specific cytogenetic lesion, the Philadelphia chromosomal translocation. Forty years …

Dose-dependent effects of Bcr-Abl in cell line models of different stages of chronic myeloid leukemia

DJ Barnes, B Schultheis, S Adedeji, JV Melo - Oncogene, 2005 - nature.com
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is caused by Bcr-Abl, an activated tyrosine kinase. The
amounts of Bcr-Abl mRNA and protein in cells from patients in blast crisis (BC) are higher …