Long-term fetal microchimerism in peripheral blood mononuclear cell subsets in healthy women and women with scleroderma

Blood

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2033-2037

  Evans, Paul C ^a   Lambert, Nathalie ^a   Maloney, Sean ^a   Furst, Dan E ^a   Moore, James M ^a   Nelson, J Lee ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROCHIMERISM; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

EID: 0033559750     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v93.6.2033.406k18_2033_2037     Document Type: Article

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