Acute myeloid leukemia-targeted toxin activates both apoptotic and necroptotic death mechanisms.

Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is the second most common leukemia with approximately 13,410 new cases and 8,990 deaths annually in the United States. A novel fusion toxin treatment, diphtheria toxin GM-CSF (DT-GMCSF) has been shown to selectively eliminate leukemic repopulating cells that are crit...

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Main Authors: Henrick Horita, Arthur E Frankel, Andrew Thorburn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2592546?pdf=render