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Thymic function after hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for the treatment of severe combined immunodeficiency.
The New England journal of medicine - 4 May 2000
Patel D D, Gooding M E, Parrott R E, Curtis K M, Haynes B F, Buckley R H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Immune function can be restored in infants with severe combined immunodeficiency by transplantation of unfractionated bone marrow from HLA-identical donors or T-cell-depleted marrow stem cells from haploidentical donors, with whom there is a single haplotype mismatch, without the need for chemotherapy before transplantation or prophylaxis against graft-versus-host disease. The role of the thymus in...
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