Starving leukemia to induce differentiation
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Cheng, Chia-Wei
Yilmaz, Omer
Date Issued
January 2017
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Nature Medicine
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Nature Publishing Group
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Cheng, Chia-Wei and Ömer H Yilmaz. “Starving Leukemia to Induce Differentiation.” Nature Medicine 23, 1 (January 2017): 14–15 © 2017 Springer Nature
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Abstract
A new study shows that fasting induces the differentiation and elimination of some types of leukemia in mice, which implicates fasting or its mimetics as a novel strategy for the treatment of this disease.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1038/NM.4259