Pronounced hypoxia in models of murine and human leukemia: high efficacy of hypoxia-activated prodrug PR-104.

Recent studies indicate that interactions between leukemia cells and the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment promote leukemia cell survival and confer resistance to anti-leukemic drugs. There is evidence that BM microenvironment contains hypoxic areas that confer survival advantage to hematopoietic ce...

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Main Authors: Juliana Benito, Yuexi Shi, Barbara Szymanska, Hernan Carol, Ingrid Boehm, Hongbo Lu, Sergej Konoplev, Wendy Fang, Patrick A Zweidler-McKay, Dario Campana, Gautam Borthakur, Carlos Bueso-Ramos, Elizabeth Shpall, Deborah A Thomas, Craig T Jordan, Hagop Kantarjian, William R Wilson, Richard Lock, Michael Andreeff, Marina Konopleva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3154919?pdf=render