Acute myelogenous leukemia
Subtitle: genetics, biology, and therapy
By: Lalitha Nagarajan, editor
Series: Cancer treatment and research -- 145; Cancer treatment and research -- v. 145.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York; Springer
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780387692579; 9780387692593
Subjects: Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Genetics; Acute myeloid leukemia; Therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leukemia stem cell / Zeev Estrov.; title: Epigenetic mechanisms in AML - a target for therapy / Yasuhir Oki, Jean-Pierre J. Issa.; title: Chromosomal translocations in AML: detection and prognostic significance / Nallasivam Palanisamy.; title: Chromosomal deletions in AML / Lilitha Nagarajan.; title: Genes predicitive of outcome and novel molecular classification schemes in adult acute myeloid leukemia / Roel G.W. Verhaak, Peter J.M. Valk.; title: Receptor tyrosine kinase alterations in AML - biology and therapy / Derek L. Stirewalt, Soheil Meshinchi.; title: Lineage-specific transcription factor aberrations in AML / Beatrice U. Mueller, Thomas Pabst.; title: Proleukemic RUNX1 and CBFB mutations in the pathogenesis of acute leukemia / Michael E. Engel, Scott W. Hiebert.; title: Acute myeloid leukemia with mutated nucleophosmin (NPM1): molecular, pathological, and clinical features / Brunangelo Falini.; title: MicroRNAs: new players in AML pathogenesis / Milena S. Nicoloso, Bharti Jasra, George A. Calin.; title: Murine models of human acute myeloid leukemia / Julie M. Fortier, Timothy A. Graubert.; title: Apoptosis in leukemias: regulation and therapeutic targeting / Ismael Samudio, Marina Konopleva, Bing Carter, Michael Andreeff.; title: Acute promyelocytic leukemia: a pradigm for differentiation therapy / David Grimwade, Anita R. Mistry, Ellen Solomon, Fabien Guidez.; title: Immunotherapy AML / Gheath Alatrash, Jeffrey J. Molldrem.; title: Therapy of acute myelogenous leukemia in adults / Gautam Borthakur, Elihu E. Estey.