Aberrant cytokine signaling in leukemia

作者：Van Etten R A^*

来源：Oncogene, 2007, 26(47): 6738-6749.

DOI：10.1038/sj.onc.1210758

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• leukemia stem cell

Abnormalities of cytokine and growth factor signaling pathways are characteristic of all forms of leukemia: lymphoid and myeloid, acute and chronic. In normal hematopoietic cells, cytokines provide the stimulus for proliferation, survival, self- renewal, differentiation and functional activation. In leukemic cells, these pathways are usurped to subserve critical parts of the malignant program. In this review, our current knowledge of leukemic cell cytokine signaling will be summarized, and some speculations on the significance and implications of these insights will be advanced. A better understanding of aberrant cytokine signaling in leukemia should provide additional targets for the rational therapy of these diseases.

• 出版日期2007-10