Severe combined immunodeficiency-repopulating cell assay may overestimate long-term repopulation ability

Stem Cells

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3271-3272

  Horn, Peter A ^a   Blasczyk, Rainer ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; FLT3 LIGAND;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BABOON; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL POPULATION; COLONY FORMING CELL; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LETTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; SCID MOUSE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 37349090501     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0477     Document Type: Letter

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