Diagnose en oorzaak leukemie: BCL-2, een molecule betrokken bij natuurlijke celdood zou oorzaak zijn van leukemie, aldus beweren onderzoekers na studie bij muizen.
Posted 28/11/2009 14:14:11Leukemia Cells Eradicated in Lab Mice
Medinews.com - December 7, 2004
Scientists have fixed a defect in cancer cells that allows them to avoid the normal cell-death process, and as a consequence, they eliminated leukemia cells from laboratory mice.
With this accomplishment, investigators from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI, Boston, MA, USA) showed that a major anticell death molecule known as BCL-2 is needed by many kinds of cancer cells to survive, and that silencing...