IL-7 enhances peripheral T cell reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1095-1107

  Alpdogan, Önder ^a   Muriglan, Stephanie J ^a   Eng, Jeffrey M ^a   Willis, Lucy M ^a   Greenberg, Andrew S ^a   Kappel, Barry J ^a   Van Den Brink, Marcel R M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; MORTALITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-7; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0242348786     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200317865     Document Type: Article

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