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This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute grant 1R21CA153018-01, and by support from GlaxoSmithKline.
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Sugita, M., Kalota, A., Gewirtz, A. et al. Eltrombopag inhibition of acute myeloid leukemia cell survival does not depend on c-Mpl expression. Leukemia 27, 1207–1210 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2012.310
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