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Winning the war with iron

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An FDA-approved iron oxide nanoparticle used for the treatment of anaemia can be repurposed for leukaemia therapy.

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Fig. 1: Proposed mechanism by which ferumoxytol induces selective cell death in leukaemic cells that express low levels of FPN.

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  1. Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

    Suzy V. Torti

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

    Frank M. Torti

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Torti, S.V., Torti, F.M. Winning the war with iron. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 499–500 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0419-9

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