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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Pharm. 2011 Oct 12;8(6):2012–2020. doi: 10.1021/mp200279p

Figure 8.

Figure 8

Growth rate of multiple myeloma in the bone marrow, effect of mutations in subpopulations of IL6 irresponsive cells. The simulation results depicted above indicate that the initial germinal center translocation determines the initial growth of the disease, but eventually all subpopulations adapt to the environmental barriers of the bone marrow and all transition to an aggressive form of the disease, with ~80% of the marrow occupied by MM cells.