Male microchimerism in healthy women and women with scleroderma: Cells or circulating DNA? A quantitative answer

Blood

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2845-2851

  Lambert, Nathalie C ^a,b,c,d   Dennis Lo, Y M ^a,b,c,d   Erickson, Timothy D ^a,b,c,d   Tylee, Tracy S ^a,b,c,d   Guthrie, Katherine A ^a,b,c,d   Furst, Daniel E ^a,b,c,d   Lee Nelson, J ^a,b,c,d  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENOME; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCHIMERISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0037108307     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-01-0295     Document Type: Article

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