Prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease by photochemical treatment

Blood

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3140-3147

  Grass, Joshua A ^b   Wafa, Tamim ^b   Reames, Aaron ^b   Wages, David ^b   Corash, Laurence ^b   Ferrara, James L M ^b   Lin, Lily ^a  

^a CERUS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOTOSALEN; PSORALEN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

EID: 0033135739     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v93.9.3140.409a42_3140_3147     Document Type: Article

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