Expression Levels of Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter 1 and Deoxycytidine Kinase Enzyme as Prognostic Factors in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated with Cytarabine.
A phase II study of elacytarabine in combination with idarubicin and of human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 expression in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and persistent blasts after the first induction course.
Taken together, these findings suggest that FLT3-ITD specifically induces ara-C resistance in leukemic cells by the repression of ENT1 expression, possibly through the upregulation of HIF-1alpha, while also partially accounting for the poor prognosis of AML with FLT3-ITD due to resistance to the standard chemotherapy protocols which include ara-C.