Acute graft-versus-host disease: From the bench to the bedside

Blood

Volumn 114, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4327-4336

  Socié, Gerard ^a   Blazar, Bruce R ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STIMULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 73349118783     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-06-204669     Document Type: Article

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