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SUBMITTER: Forristal CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4498452 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Forristal C E CE Nowlan B B Jacobsen R N RN Barbier V V Walkinshaw G G Walkley C R CR Winkler I G IG Levesque J P JP
Leukemia 20150112 6
Many patients with hematological neoplasms fail to mobilize sufficient numbers of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in response to granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) precluding subsequent autologous HSC transplantation. Plerixafor, a specific antagonist of the chemokine receptor CXCR4, can rescue some but not all patients who failed to mobilize with G-CSF alone. These refractory poor mobilizers cannot currently benefit from autologous transplantation. To discover alternative targetable ...[more]