IL-7 serum levels and lymphopenia in hemodialysis patients, non-responders to recombinant human erythropoietin therapy

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 134-135

  Costa, Elísio ^a,b,c   Lima, Margarida ^d   Rocha, Susana ^a,b   Rocha Pereira, Petronila ^e   Castro, Elisabeth ^a,b   Miranda, Vasco ^f   Faria, Maria do Sameiro ^f   Loureiro, Alfredo ^g   Quintanilha, Alexandre ^a,b   Belo, Luís ^a,b   Santos Silva, Alice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^f FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

^g Uninefro Santo Tirso Sociedade Prestadora de Cuidados Medicos e Dialise SA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CD3 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 7; PARATHYROID HORMONE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELL SURVIVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL DEPLETION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UREMIA;

AGED; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 44449094940     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2008.02.007     Document Type: Letter

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