Serum thrombopoietin level is mainly regulated by megakaryocyte mass rather than platelet mass in human subjects

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 242-244

  Nagasawa, Toshiro ^a   Hasegawa, Yuichi ^a   Shimizu, Sehchi ^a   Kawashima, Yasuko ^a   Nishimura, Shigeko ^a   Suzukawa, Kazumi ^a   Mukai, Harumi ^a   Hori, Mitsuo ^a   Komeno, Takuya ^a   Kojima, Hiroshi ^a   Ninomiya, Haruhiko ^a   Tahara, Tomoyuki ^b   Abe, Tsukasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KIRIN BREWERY CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Megakaryocyte mass; Platelet mass; Serum level; Thrombopoietin

Indexed keywords

THROMBOPOIETIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DENSITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MEGAKARYOPOIESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MEGAKARYOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; STEROIDS; THROMBOPOIETIN;

EID: 7144229346     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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