Reconstitution of a functional human immune system in immunodeficient mice through combined human fetal thymus/liver and CD34+ cell transplantation

Blood

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 487-492

  Lan, Ping ^a   Tonomura, Noriko ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^a   Wang, Shumei ^a   Yang, Yong Guang ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FETUS LIVER; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 33745959565     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-11-4388     Document Type: Article

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