Recent thymic output function in patients with hematological malignancy

Hematology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 297-305

  Li, Yangqiu ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Leukemia; Na ve T cells; Stem cell transplantation; Thymic output function; TREC

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLT3 LIGAND; FLUDARABINE; INTERLEUKIN 7; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE MARKER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS ATROPHY; THYMUS FUNCTION;

DNA REPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; MITOSIS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 29144440125     PISSN: 10245332     EISSN: 16078454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10245330500093591     Document Type: Review

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