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. 2018 Mar 2;118(8):1062–1073. doi: 10.1038/s41416-018-0025-x

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Combo score predicts for sensitivity of primary myeloma cells of patients to HDACi/DNMTi combined treatment. a Mononuclear cells from tumor samples of 10 patients with MM were cultured for 4 days in the presence of IL-6 (2 ng/ml) with or without graded decitabine and TSA concentrations. At day 4 of culture, the count of viable CD138+ MMCs was determined using flow cytometry. The gray columns represent the mean ± SD of primary myeloma cell counts (expressed as the percentage of the count without adding drugs) of the five patients with a low Combo score and the white columns that of the five patients with a high Combo score. b 5-Azacitidine and SAHA combination was also investigated using samples of 15 myeloma patients. The gray columns represent the mean ± SD of primary myeloma cell counts (expressed as the percentage of the count without adding drugs) of the 8 patients with a low Combo score and the white columns that of the 7 patients with a high Combo score