Autoimmunity in CLL: Grave consequences of gravidity?

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1445-1446

  Adams, Kristina M ^a,b   Gadi, Vijayakrishna K ^a,c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; FEMALE; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33748525530     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: 10292403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190600647806     Document Type: Note

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