Clonal T-cell proliferation causing pure red cell aplasia in chronic B- cell lymphocytic leukaemia: Successful treatment with cyclosporine following in vitro abrogation of erythroid colony-suppressing activity

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 335-337

  Yamada, Osamu ^a   Yun Hua, Wang ^a   Motoji, Toshiko ^a   Mizoguchi, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

B cell CLL; Clonal T cell proliferation; Cyclosporine; PRCA

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISOLONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B CELL LEUKEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; T LYMPHOCYTE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CYCLOSPORINE; ERYTHROID PROGENITOR CELLS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031839750     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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