Chronic expression of murine flt3 ligand in mice results in increased circulating white blood cell levels and abnormal cellular infiltrates associated with splenic fibrosis

Blood

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 76-84

  Juan, Todd S C ^a   McNiece, Ian K ^a   Van, Gwenneth ^a   Lacey, David ^a   Hartley, Cynthia ^a   McElroy, Patricia ^a   Sun, Yu ^a   Argento, Julie ^a   Hill, David ^a   Yan, Xiao Qiang ^a   Fletcher, Frederick A ^a  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE;

ANEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0030946075     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v90.1.76     Document Type: Article

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