The concentration of circulating megakaryocyte progenitors in preterm neonates is a function of post-conceptional age

Early Human Development

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-124

  Saxonhouse, Matthew A ^a   Christensen, Robert D ^b   Walker, Danielle M ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^c   Sola, Martha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Megakaryocyte progenitors; Megakaryocytopoiesis; Thrombocytopenia; Thrombopoiesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; NEWBORN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; STEM CELL;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MEGAKARYOCYTES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 3042615527     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2004.03.009     Document Type: Article

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