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We also chart the critical consensus about books, movies, art, and music in "Summary Judgment" and spare you from having to watch the Sunday talk shows by offering you the gist in "Pundit Central" (check in Sunday evening to prepare for Monday sessions at the water cooler).
(For a backgrounder on Zaire, see Slate's "The Gist."
Gleevec has been shown to induce clinical, hematological and molecular remissions for CML patients [ 4 ] . It cross-reacts with two other important growth factor receptors containing tyrosine kinase domains, c-kit and PDGF receptors, that play important roles in growth and proliferation of a variety of cell types [ 5 ] . C-kit (also known as CD117) is frequently mutated in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), and the mutated c-kit shows higher tyrosine kinase activity.
You may have skipped all those worthy newspaper articles about that coup in Burundi, but we hope you'll feel guilty enough to read a short "Gist" column on the subject.
(Click here to read a "Gist" on the Nation.)