Successful treatment with cyclosporin A for myelodysplastic syndrome with erythroid hypoplasia associated with T-cell receptor gene rearrangements

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 358-361

  Shimamoto, Takashi ^a   Iguchi, Tomotaka ^a   Ando, Keiko ^a   Katagiri, Tomoko ^b   Tauchi, Tetsuzo ^a   Ito, Yoshikazu ^b   Yaguchi, Makoto ^a   Miyazawa, Keisuke ^b   Kimura, Yukihiko ^b   Masuda, Michihiko ^a   Mizoguchi, Hideaki ^b   Ohyashiki, Kazuma ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin A; Inverted CD4 8 ratio; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Pure red cell aplasia; TCR rearrangements

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROID CELL; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AGED; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, GAMMA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034883604     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2001.02925.x     Document Type: Article

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