Thrombopoietin concentrations in peripheral blood correlated with platelet numbers in two patients with thrombocytopenia by chronic graft-versus-host disease

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-289

  Hirayama, Yasuo ^a,c   Sakamaki, Sumio ^a   Tsuji, Yasushi ^a   Sagawa, Tamotsu ^b   Chiba, Hiroki ^b   Matsunaga, Takuya ^b   Kuroda, Hiroyuki ^b   Kusakabe, Toshiro ^b   Akiyama, Takehide ^b   Kato, Junji ^b   Niitsu, Yoshiro ^b  

^a Higashi Sapporo Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Higashi Sapporo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

GVHD; Thrombocytopenia; TPO

Indexed keywords

THROMBOPOIETIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STROMA CELL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; BONE MARROW; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPOIETIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0042810685     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.10345     Document Type: Article

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