Drug Resistance Updates
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 103-113 , August 2009

Therapeutic targeting of microenvironmental interactions in leukemia: Mechanisms and approaches

  • Marina Konopleva

      Affiliations

    • Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, United States
    • Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Leukemia, Unit 428, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Holcombe blvd 1515, Houston, TX 77030, United States. Tel.: +1 713 794 1628; fax: +1 713 745 5372.
    • ,
  • Yoko Tabe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pathology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Zhihong Zeng

      Affiliations

    • Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, United States
    • ,
  • Michael Andreeff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, United States
    • Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, United States

Received 16 June 2009 ,Revised 29 June 2009 ,Accepted 29 June 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.drup.2009.06.001

Drug Resistance Updates
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 103-113 , August 2009

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