The apoptotic pathway: a target for therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Autor:	Chris Pepper, D. P. Bentley
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Cancer Research Programmed cell death Cell division biology Chronic lymphocytic leukemia Cell Hematology General Medicine Drug resistance medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Oncology Apoptosis Immunology medicine biology.protein Signal transduction Caspase
Zdroj:	Hematological Oncology. 18:87-98
ISSN:	1099-1069 0278-0232
DOI:	10.1002/1099-1069(200009)18:3<87::aid-hon661>3.0.co;2-8
Popis:	Cell division and apoptosis (programmed cell death) are the two major physiological processes which control the size of cell populations. Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia arises as a result of the clonal expansion of, usually B-, lymphocytes in which a dysregulation of apoptosis leads to prolonged cell survival. The same process becomes exaggerated with increasing drug resistance, the usual cause of treatment failure in this condition. The identification of points in the apoptotic pathway at which dysregulation occurs is beginning to open up new therapeutic opportunities where the conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy approach is found to fail. Although these strategies are still in their infancy they may increase understanding of the pathogenesis of the disorder and overcome the problem of drug resistance.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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