"Human leukemia" refers to a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, leading to an abnormal increase in white blood cells.
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The study involved laboratory cell lines
of human leukemia and mouse models of the disease.
Its first target was the regulatory network involved in controlling the differentiation of THP - 1 cells, a line of
human leukemia cells used in laboratory experiments.
A decade ago, he replicated the
entire human leukemia disease process by introducing oncogenes into normal human blood cells, transplanting them into xenografts (special immune - deficient mice that accept human grafts) and watching leukemia develop — a motherlode discovery that has guided leukemia research ever since.
«The bacterial enzyme killed about 90 % of the
MOLT4 human leukemia cells and displayed low toxicity to the healthy HUVEC cells, killing only 10 %,» Monteiro said.
He notes that students are involved in every step of the research process —
growing human leukemia cells, performing the experiments, analyzing the data that the experiments generate and interpreting those data as to what they're saying about the cells» genetic network.
Feline leukemia is much
like human leukemia and feline immunodeficiency virus (or FIV) is the equivalent to human HIV.
Interestingly, runx1 is also one of the most frequently mutated genes
in human leukemias, supporting that runx1 plays an important role in the adult.
The researchers were able to identify the new molecular targets by conducting a global proteomic analysis of
human leukemia cells.
The investigators then tested dBET1 in mice bearing a widespread and aggressive form of
human leukemia.
When the mice received no treatment or were treated with imatinib alone,
the human leukemia stem cells propagated and grew to relatively large numbers.
Gallo and his colleagues then opened and pioneered the field of human retrovirology with the discovery of the first human retrovirus (HTLV - 1) and along with Japanese investigators showed it was a cause of a particular form of
human leukemia.
Vitamin K2 induces certain kinds of
human leukemia cells to differentiate, or turn into normal white blood cells.
In one study, researchers found that carrot juice extracts caused apoptosis — or self - destruction — of
human leukemia cells.
Extensive scientific research has shown no relationship between feline leukemia and
human leukemia.
FeLV (Feline Leukemia Virus) and FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) are both in the retrovirus category, the same type of virus responsible for HIV and some forms of
human leukemia.
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