The PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathway in human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells

I Nepstad, KJ Hatfield, IS Grønningsæter… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by
uncontrolled proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow. Malignant cell …

Biology and relevance of human acute myeloid leukemia stem cells

D Thomas, R Majeti - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Evidence of human acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AML LSCs) was first reported nearly
2 decades ago through the identification of rare subpopulations of engrafting cells in …

Absence of NKG2D ligands defines leukaemia stem cells and mediates their immune evasion

AM Paczulla, K Rothfelder, S Raffel, M Konantz… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) often achieve remission after therapy, but
subsequently die of relapse that is driven by chemotherapy-resistant leukaemic stem cells …

Chemotherapy-resistant human acute myeloid leukemia cells are not enriched for leukemic stem cells but require oxidative metabolism

T Farge, E Saland, F De Toni, N Aroua, M Hosseini… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
Chemotherapy-resistant human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells are thought to be
enriched in quiescent immature leukemic stem cells (LSC). To validate this hypothesis in …

[PDF][PDF] Data-driven phenotypic dissection of AML reveals progenitor-like cells that correlate with prognosis

JH Levine, EF Simonds, SC Bendall, KL Davis… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) manifests as phenotypically and functionally diverse cells,
often within the same patient. Intratumor phenotypic and functional heterogeneity have been …

Tumour heterogeneity and cancer cell plasticity

CE Meacham, SJ Morrison - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity arise among cancer cells within the same tumour
as a consequence of genetic change, environmental differences and reversible changes in …

Protective mitochondrial transfer from bone marrow stromal cells to acute myeloid leukemic cells during chemotherapy

R Moschoi, V Imbert, M Nebout… - Blood, The Journal …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Here we demonstrate that in a niche-like coculture system, cells from both primary and
cultured acute myeloid leukemia (AML) sources take up functional mitochondria from murine …

[PDF][PDF] Cancer stem cells: impact, heterogeneity, and uncertainty

JA Magee, E Piskounova, SJ Morrison - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
The differentiation of tumorigenic cancer stem cells into nontumorigenic cancer cells confers
heterogeneity to some cancers beyond that explained by clonal evolution or environmental …

Clonal evolution of preleukemic hematopoietic stem cells precedes human acute myeloid leukemia

M Jan, TM Snyder, MR Corces-Zimmerman… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Given that most bone marrow cells are short-lived, the accumulation of multiple
leukemogenic mutations in a single clonal lineage has been difficult to explain. We propose …

Stem cell gene expression programs influence clinical outcome in human leukemia

K Eppert, K Takenaka, ER Lechman, L Waldron… - Nature medicine, 2011 - nature.com
Xenograft studies indicate that some solid tumors and leukemias are organized as cellular
hierarchies sustained by cancer stem cells (CSCs). Despite the promise of the CSC model …