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 …

Tumour stem cells and drug resistance

M Dean, T Fojo, S Bates - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2005 - nature.com
The contribution of tumorigenic stem cells to haematopoietic cancers has been established
for some time, and cells possessing stem-cell properties have been described in several …

Human chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells are insensitive to imatinib despite inhibition of BCR-ABL activity

AS Corbin, A Agarwal, M Loriaux… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Imatinib therapy, which targets the oncogene product BCR-ABL, has transformed chronic
myeloid leukemia (CML) from a life-threatening disease into a chronic condition. Most …

Mechanisms of BCR–ABL in the pathogenesis of chronic myelogenous leukaemia

R Ren - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2005 - nature.com
Imatinib, a potent inhibitor of the oncogenic tyrosine kinase BCR–ABL, has shown
remarkable clinical activity in patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) …

Molecular biology of bcr-abl1–positive chronic myeloid leukemia

A Quintás-Cardama, J Cortes - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has been regarded as the paradigmatic example of a
malignancy defined by a unique molecular event, the BCR-ABL1 oncogene. Decades of …

The development of imatinib as a therapeutic agent for chronic myeloid leukemia

M Deininger, E Buchdunger, BJ Druker - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
Imatinib has revolutionized drug therapy of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Preclinical
studies were promising but the results of clinical trials by far exceeded expectations …

The pharmacology and clinical pharmacology of 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA,“ecstasy”)

AR Green, AO Mechan, JM Elliott, E O'Shea… - Pharmacological …, 2003 - ASPET
The amphetamine derivative (±)-3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) is
a popular recreational drug among young people, particularly those involved in the dance …

Altered microenvironmental regulation of leukemic and normal stem cells in chronic myelogenous leukemia

B Zhang, YW Ho, Q Huang, T Maeda, A Lin, S Lee… - Cancer cell, 2012 - cell.com
We characterized leukemia stem cells (LSC) in chronic phase chronic myelogenous
leukemia (CML) using a transgenic mouse model. LSC were restricted to cells with long …

Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukaemia

F Michor, TP Hughes, Y Iwasa, S Branford, NP Shah… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The clinical success of the ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib in chronic myeloid
leukaemia (CML) serves as a model for molecularly targeted therapy of cancer,,,, but at least …

Part I: mechanisms of resistance to imatinib in chronic myeloid leukaemia

JF Apperley - The lancet oncology, 2007 - thelancet.com
The introduction of selective tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKIs) for the treatment of chronic
myeloid leukaemia has changed patient outcome and, consequently, management of this …