Direct assessment of thymic reactivation after autologous stem cell transplantation

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-27

  Thiel, Andreas ^a,b   Alexander, Tobias ^a,c   Schmidt, Christian A ^f   Przybylski, Gregorsz K ^f,g   Kimmig, Sonja ^d   Kohler, Siegfried ^a   Radtke, Hartmut ^c   Gromnica Ihle, Erika ^e   Massenkeil, Gero ^c   Radbruch, Andreas ^a   Arnold, Renate ^c   Hiepe, Falk ^c  

^a DEUTSCHES RHEUMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM   (Germany)

^b Berlin Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Rheumaklinik Berlin Buch   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Autologous stem cell transplantation; Immune reconstitution; T cell, naive; Thymic activity

Indexed keywords

CD31 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TH1 CELL; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION;

ANTIGENS, CD31; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 40549111926     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000117824     Document Type: Article

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