Greater than the sum of their parts: Combination strategies for immune regeneration following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Haematology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-476

  Dudakov, Jarrod A ^a,b   Van Den Brink, Marcel R M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell trans plantation; immune regeneration; thymus

Indexed keywords

FLT3 LIGAND; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 7; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOPOIESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T CELL DEPLETION;

EID: 80052991999     PISSN: 15216926     EISSN: 15321924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beha.2011.05.003     Document Type: Review

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