Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for autoimmune diseases

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 244-256

  Swart, Joost F ^a   Delemarre, Eveline M ^b   Van Wijk, Femke ^b   Boelens, Jaap Jan ^a,b   Kuball, Jürgen ^b   Van Laar, Jacob M ^b   Wulffraat, Nico M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHCET DISEASE; CD34 SELECTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMYOSITIS; REMISSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOPOIESIS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE;

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 85013465395     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2017.7     Document Type: Review

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