Feto-maternal microchimaerism does not indicate the existence of feto-maternal immunological tolerance in human leucocyte antigen haploidentical haematopoietic stem cell transplantation from mother to offspring [1]

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 869-870

  Ochiai, Naoya ^a   Inaba, Tohru ^a   Maruya, Etsuko ^b   Saji, Hiroh ^b   Nakagawa, Masao ^a   Shimazaki, Chihiro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Japanese Red Cross Kanto Koshinetsu Block Blood Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

HLA haploidentical 3 loci mismatched haematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Long term feto maternal microchimaerism; T cell lymphoblastic lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; BONE MARROW; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAPLOIDY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LETTER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROCHIMERISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; VISUAL DISORDER; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHIMERA; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GRAFT VS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; MALE; PREGNANCY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 0041911417     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04507.x     Document Type: Letter

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