La Jolla Institute discovers novel tumor suppressor

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 08/02/2009 - 22:00

(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology researchers studying an enzyme believed to play a role in allergy onset, instead have discovered its previously unknown role as a tumor suppressor that may be important in myeloproliferative diseases and some types of lymphoma and leukemia.

Myeloproliferative diseases are a group of disorders characterized by an overproduction of blood cells by the bone marrow and include chronic myeloid leukemia.

Lymphoma and leukemia are cancers of the blood.

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