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Abstract
Hypomethylating therapies using decitabine or azacitidine are actively investigated to treat acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, as maintenance therapy after allogenic stem cell transplant and hemoglobinopathies. The therapeutic mechanism is to de-repress genes that have been turned off through oncogenesis or development via methylation. The therapy can be non-cytotoxic at low dosage, sparing healthy stem cells and operating on committed precursors. Because the methods of determining maximum tolerated dose are not well suited to this paradigm, and because the mechanism of action, which is depletion of DNA methylase 1 (DNMT1), is complex and dependent on passing through a cell cycle, a pharmacodynamic assay that measures DNMT1 can inform clinical trials aimed at establishing and improving therapy. Herein, we provide an assay that measures DNMT1 relative levels in circulating T cells of peripheral blood.
目前正在积极研究使用地西他滨或阿扎胞苷的低甲基化疗法，以治疗急性髓性白血病、骨髓增生异常综合征、异基因干细胞移植后的维持治疗以及血红蛋白病。其治疗机制是通过甲基化来抑制因肿瘤发生或发育而关闭的基因。该疗法在低剂量时无细胞毒性，可挽救健康干细胞，并对已承诺的前体发挥作用。由于确定最大耐受剂量的方法并不十分适合这种模式，而且DNA甲基化酶1（DNMT1）的作用机制十分复杂，并依赖于细胞周期的通过，因此一种测量DNMT1的药效学检测方法可以为旨在建立和改进疗法的临床试验提供信息。在此，我们提供了一种测定外周血循环 T 细胞中 DNMT1 相对水平的方法。
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For over fifty years, Methods in Cell Biology has helped researchers answer the question "What method should I use to study this cell biology problem?" Edited by leaders in the field, each thematic volume provides proven, state-of-art techniques, along with relevant historical background and theory, to aid researchers in efficient design and effective implementation of experimental methodologies. Over its many years of publication, Methods in Cell Biology has built up a deep library of biological methods to study model developmental organisms, organelles and cell systems, as well as comprehensive coverage of microscopy and other analytical approaches.
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