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leukaemia
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leukaemia (esp US), leukemia
an acute or chronic disease characterized by a gross proliferation of leucocytes, which crowd into the bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, etc., and suppress the blood-forming apparatus


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Written for researchers and scientists in the field, this reference volume presents such topics as the backtracking of leukemic clones to birth, known and unknown fusions of the human GLL gene and retroviral/lentiviral transduction and transformation assay.
The human leukemic cell lines were the most sensitive, whereas the human glioblastoma cell lines were the most resistant to MK-2 and GG.
Although leukemia is a cancer of white blood cells and children with leukemia may have very high white blood cell counts, the leukemic cells do not protect against infection the way normal white blood cells do.
 
 
 
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