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Supported in part by grants from The USC-CHLA Institute for Pediatric Clinical Research, The Neil Bogart Memorial Laboratories of the TJ Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research; The Cusumano Leukemia Fund of the Michael Hoefflin Foundation; The Tyler's Team Leukemia Fund by Public Health Service RO1 Grants CA100895, CA030715 and CA89346, and Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) Grant CA100632 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
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Kong, G., Wang, D., Wang, H. et al. Synthetic triterpenoids have cytotoxicity in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines but cytotoxicity is independent of induced ceramide increase in MOLT-4 cells. Leukemia 22, 1258–1262 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.leu.2405023
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