Quantitative analysis of cobblestone area-forming cells in bone marrow of patients with aplastic anemia by limiting dilution assay

Blood

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4474-4480

  Schrezenmeier, Hubert ^a   Jenal, Marianne ^a   Herrmann, Friedhelm ^a   Heimpel, Hermann ^a   Raghavachar, Aruna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

EID: 0029992672     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v88.12.4474.bloodjournal88124474     Document Type: Article

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