Early reconstitution of the t-cell repertoire after non-myeloablative peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is from post-thymic t-cell expansion and is unaffected by graft-versus-host disease or mixed chimaerism

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 934-943

  Bahceci, Erkut ^a,c   Epperson, Diane ^a   Douek, Daniel C ^b   Melenhorst, J Joseph ^a   Childs, Richard C ^a   Barrett, A John ^a  

^a Natl Heart Lung/Blood Institute   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation immunology; Graft versus host disease; Stem cell transplantation; T cells; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CHIMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; CHILD; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA;

EID: 0141651729     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04522.x     Document Type: Article

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