Stable engraftment after megadose blood stem cell transplantation across the HLA barrier: The case for natural killer cells as graft-facilitating cells

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-88

  Bornhäuser, Martin ^a   Thiede, Christian ^a   Brendel, Cornelia ^a   Geissler, Gabriele ^a   Oelschlägel, Uta ^a   Neubauer, Andreas ^a   Ehninger, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL SELECTION; CHIMERA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0344299165     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199907150-00017     Document Type: Article

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