Ethyl Pyruvate Combats Human Leukemia Cells but Spares Normal Blood Cells

• Gerd Birkenmeier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerd Birkenmeier, Nasr Y. A. Hemdan, Philipp Pieroh, Tewodros Debebe

  * E-mail: gerd.birkenmeier@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Nasr Y. A. Hemdan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerd Birkenmeier, Nasr Y. A. Hemdan, Philipp Pieroh, Tewodros Debebe

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Susanne Kurz,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Marina Bigl,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Philipp Pieroh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerd Birkenmeier, Nasr Y. A. Hemdan, Philipp Pieroh, Tewodros Debebe

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University of Leipzig, Liebigstr. 20, 04103, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Grosse Steinstrasse 52, 06097 Halle (Saale), Germany

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• Tewodros Debebe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerd Birkenmeier, Nasr Y. A. Hemdan, Philipp Pieroh, Tewodros Debebe

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Liebigstr. 21, 04103 Leipzig, Germany, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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• Martin Buchold,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 30, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Rene Thieme,

  Affiliation University Medical Center, Department of Visceral, Transplantation, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Leipzig, Liebigstr. 19, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Gunnar Wichmann,

  Affiliation ENT-Research Lab, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Liebigstr. 21, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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• Faramarz Dehghani

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Grosse Steinstrasse 52, 06097 Halle (Saale), Germany

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