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Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia

Mitochondrial Depolarization Sensitivity Affects Drug Susceptibility

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 11th, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Researchers in Europe say that the sensitivity of acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) mitochondria to membrane depolarization can determine chemotherapy effectiveness.

"Nonresponse to remission-induction chemotherapy, which remains a major problem in [AML], has been linked to cellular resistance to apoptosis," explained Monica Pallis and colleagues at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham City Hospital in the U.K. and the Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute and the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology in Innsbruck, Austria. "Because the apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutic drugs is mediated by loss of...

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