Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

The combination of CHK1 inhibitor with G-CSF overrides cytarabine resistance in human acute myeloid leukemia

  • Alessandro Di Tullio,
  • Kevin Rouault-Pierre,
  • Ander Abarrategi,
  • Syed Mian,
  • William Grey,
  • John Gribben,
  • Aengus Stewart,
  • Elizabeth Blackwood,
  • Dominique Bonnet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01834-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Overriding cytarabine resistance in AML remains an unmet medical need. Here, the authors show that the CHK1 inhibitor GDC-0575 in combination with cytarabine and G-CSF has a significant anti-leukemic effect without toxicity to normal marrow stem and progenitor cells.