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This study found that oridonin, a natural diterpenoid purified from Rabdosia rubescens, inhibited growth of multiple myeloma (MM; U266, RPMI8226), acute lymphoblastic T-cell leukemia (Jurkat), and adult T-cell leukemia (MT-1) cells with an effective dose that inhibited 50% of target cells (ED 50 ) ranging from 0.75 to 2.7 Mg/ mL. Terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase -mediated dUTP nick end labeling staining showed that oridonin caused apoptosis of MT-1 cells in a time-dependent manner. We explored effects of oridonin on antiapoptotic Bcl-2 family members and found that it down-regulated levels of Mcl-1 and BCL-x L , but not Bcl-2 protein, in both MT-1 and RPMI8226 cells.

The Aurora kinases play an important role in chromosome alignment, segregation, and cytokinesis during mitosis.

We studied antitumor effects of receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib (formerly

The objective of this prospective clinical trial (JALSG-STIM213, UMIN000011971) was to evaluate treatment-free remission (TFR) rates after discontinuation of imatinib in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). CML patients who received imatinib treatment for at least 3 years and sustained deep molecular response for at least 2 years were eligible. Molecular recurrence was defined as loss of major molecular response (MMR). Of the 68 eligible patients, 38.2% were women, the median age was 55.0 years, and the median duration of imatinib treatment was 97.5 months. The 12-month TFR rate was 67.6%. Patients who lost MMR were immediately treated with imatinib again; all re-achieved MMR. Three-year treatment-free survival (TFS) was estimated as 64.6% using the Kaplan-Meier method. Undetectable molecular residual disease (UMRD) was defined as no BCR-ABL1 in > 100,000 ABL1 control genes using international scale polymerase chain reaction. UMRD at the study baseline was found to be predictive of continuation of TFR. Our findings suggest that CML patients who meet all the eligibility criteria that have commonly been used in the TFR trials are able to discontinue imatinib use safely. TFR may thus be valuable as a new goal for CML treatment in Japan.