Thrombopoietin level is inversely related to blast count, not platelet number, in Down syndrome neonates with transient myeloproliferative disorder

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 267-272

  Bonno, Motoki ^a   Azuma, Eiichi ^a   Kawasaki, Hajime ^a   Zhang, Xao Li ^a   Komada, Yoshihiro ^a   Hirayama, Masahiro ^a   Higashigawa, Masamune ^a   Umemoto, Masakazu ^a   Koike, Tadashi ^b   Kato, Takashi ^c   Tahara, Tomoyuki ^c   Miyazaki, Hiroshi ^c   Sakurai, Minoru ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

C Mpl; Down syndrome; Megakaryopoiesis; Thrombopoietin; Transient myeloproliferative disorder (TMD)

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; THROMBOPOIETIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MEGAKARYOBLAST; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

CELL COUNT; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTES; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PLATELET COUNT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, THROMBOPOIETIN; THROMBOPOIETIN;

EID: 17944403571     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199808)58:4<267::AID-AJH3>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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