[Using short hairpin RNA strategy, we show here that Bfl-1 silencing in one lymphoblastoid B-cell line and in two diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cell lines potently induces their apoptosis and sensitizes those cell lines to anti-CD20 (Rituximab)-mediated cell death as well as to apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutic molecules such as doxorubicin, vincristine, cisplatin and fludarabine.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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