Clinical stem cell therapies for severe autoimmune diseases

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 223-234

  Snowden, J A ^a   Martin Rendon, E ^b,c   Watt, S M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allogeneic; Autoimmune diseases; Autologous; Blood stem cells; Bone marrow stem cells; Bone marrow transplantation; Cell therapy; Clinical trials; Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MELPHALAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENGRAFTMENT SYNDROME; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69949187621     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2009.00927.x     Document Type: Review

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