title: How acute promyelocytic leukaemia revived arsenic.
abstract: Despite its many therapeutic qualities, arsenic trioxide has been more commonly remembered as Madame Bovary's poison than as an anticancer drug. The ability of arsenic trioxide to treat acute promyelocytic leukaemia has radically changed this view, providing new insights into the pathogenesis of this malignancy and raising hopes that arsenicals might be useful in treating other cancers.
authors.affiliation: CNRS UPR 9051, Laboratoire associé du comité de Paris de la ligue contre le cancer, affilié à l'université de Paris VII, Hôpital St Louis, 1 avenue C. Vellefaux, 75475 Paris cedex 10, France.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lallemand-Breitenbach
authors.forename: Hugues
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: de Thé
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000077237:Arsenic Trioxide; D001152:Arsenicals / Q000266:history / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002681:China; D005060:Europe; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D015473:Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D010087:Oxides / Q000266:history / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000071156:Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein; D018168:Receptors, Retinoic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins
chemical_list: D001152:Arsenicals; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D010087:Oxides; D000071156:Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein; D018168:Receptors, Retinoic Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; C070576:PML protein, human; D000077237:Arsenic Trioxide