Recent thymic emigrants in lymphoma patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection candidates for autologous peripheral stem cell transplantation

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-109

  Pratesi, C ^a   Simonelli, C ^a   Zanussi, S ^a   Talamini, R ^a   Bortolin, M T ^a   Tedeschi, R ^a   Marus, A ^a   Caffau, C ^a   Michieli, M ^a   Tirelli, U ^a   De Paoli, P ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autologous stem cell transplantation; HIV infection; Recurrent lymphoma; TCR excision circles

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNITY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-CD8 RATIO; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, CIRCULAR; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENETIC MARKERS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, AIDS-RELATED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PREDNISONE; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VINCRISTINE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 36849040080     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2007.03516.x     Document Type: Article

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