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Nature Medicine 13, 669 - 671 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0607-669

Linking calcineurin activity to leukemogenesis

Martin R Müller1 & Anjana Rao1

  1. The authors are in the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. e-mail: arao@cbr.med.harvard.edu


Aberrant activation of the protein phosphatase calcineurin is found in various cancer types. Inhibition of calcineurin leads to a rapid clearance of leukemic cells and significantly improves animal survival in two mouse models of acute T lymphoblastic leukemia.

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