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Pyrimethamine as a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Identified by High-throughput Drug Screening.

Abstract

Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell differentiation are blocked in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) resulting in cytopenias and a high risk of death. Most patients with AML become resistant to treatment due to lack of effective cytotoxic and differentiation promoting compounds. High MN1 expression confers poor prognosis to AML patients and induces resistance to cytarabine and alltrans-retinoic acid (ATRA) induced differentiation. Using a …

Authors

Sharma A; Jyotsana N; Lai CK; Chaturvedi A; Gabdoulline R; Görlich K; Murphy C; Blanchard JE; Ganser A; Brown E

Journal

Current Cancer Drug Targets, Vol. 16, No. 9, pp. 818–828

Publisher

Bentham Science Publishers

Publication Date

2016

DOI

10.2174/1568009616666160617103301

ISSN

1568-0096