Narrative medicine talks at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting have included writing prompts to inspire and promote wellness among attendees. The 6-word writing exercise at the 2023 Annual Meeting prompted pithy and powerful stories, which we share in this article.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFFLT3 is a type III receptor tyrosine kinase that is thought to play a key role in hematopoiesis. Certain classes of FLT3 mutations cause constitutively activated forms of the receptor that are found in significant numbers of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). The mutations occur either in the activation loop, for example, as point mutations of Asp835 or as internal tandem duplication (ITD) sequences in the juxtamembrane (JM) domain.
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