Pure red-cell aplasia associated with clonal expansion of granular lymphocytes expressing killer-cell inhibitory receptors

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 278-284

  Handgretinger, Rupert ^a,b   Geiselhart, Andreas ^a   Moris, Arnaud ^a   Grau, Roger ^a   Teuffel, Oliver ^a   Bethge, Wolfgang ^a   Kanz, Lothar ^a   Fisch, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KILLER CELL; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA;

CLONE CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033611476     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199901283400405     Document Type: Article

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