Identification of drug combinations containing imatinib for treatment of BCR-ABL+ leukemias.

The BCR-ABL translocation is found in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and in Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients. Although imatinib and its analogues have been used as front-line therapy to target this mutation and control the disease for over a decade, resistance to the therapy is still...

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Main Authors: Yunyi Kang, Andrew Hodges, Edison Ong, William Roberts, Carlo Piermarocchi, Giovanni Paternostro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4100887?pdf=render