Leukemia
Researchers' findings from the United States and India advance leukemia research
Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 30th, 2006
Study 1: Acute myeloid leukemia was associated with retroviral gene transfer to hematopoietic progenitor cells in a rhesus macaque.
According to scientists in the United States, "We report, for the first time, a replication-defective retroviral vector-associated neoplasia in a nonhuman primate. Five years after transplantation with CD34+ cells transduced with a retroviral vector expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) and a drug-resistant variant of the dihydrofolate reductase gene (L22Y), a rhesus macaque developed a fatal myeloid sarcoma, a type of acute...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-08-30)
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