Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Article Title: CDK4/6 inhibition overcomes venetoclax resistance mechanisms with enhanced combination activity in acute myeloid leukemia
doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102526
Figure Lengend Snippet: Venetoclax, in combination with the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib, inhibits growth, stalls cell cycle progression, and reduces tumor burden in AML models (A–C) OCI-AML2 cells assessed after a 5-day treatment with palbociclib (1 μM), venetoclax (200 nM), or the combination (equimolar to single agents) to determine levels of apoptosis (A), cell cycle progression (B), and percentage of viable OCI-AML2 cells/mL of media (C) Data represent the mean ± SD for 3 replicates (∗∗ p ≤ 0.01). (D) Schematic depicting two independent PDX experiments. PDX model 1: evaluation of disease burden after injection of AML patient tumor cells. PDX model 2: survival studies after injection of AML patient tumor cells. The schematic was generated using BioRender. (E–G) Flow cytometry analysis at time of euthanization for PDX model 1 showing human (h)CD45 blasts in peripheral blood (E), spleen weight of animals (F), and percentage of hCD45 chimerism in spleen tissue (G). Mean values ± SEM are shown unless otherwise stated. Two-tailed Student’s t tests were used for comparisons (∗ p ≤ 0.05, ∗∗ p ≤ 0.01, ∗∗∗ p ≤ 0.001, and ∗∗∗∗ p ≤ 0.0001). (H) Survival Kaplan-Meier curves for PDX model 2 (log rank [Mantel-Cox] test, ∗ p ≤ 0.05, ∗∗ p ≤ 0.01, ∗∗∗ p ≤ 0.001, and ∗∗∗∗ p ≤ 0.0001).
Article Snippet: Human AML cell lines (OCI-AML2, OCI-AML3, MOLM13) were purchased from DSMZ.
Techniques: Injection, Generated, Flow Cytometry, Two Tailed Test