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A negative-selection strategy for depleting myeloma cells from patients' BM and/or leukapheresis blood.
Cytotherapy - 1 Jan 2001
Louis S A, Zapf R, Clarke E, Thomas T E, Sutherland H J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Autologous transplantation improves survival in multiple myeloma patients, however, most eventually relapse. As an attempt towards improving relapse-free survival, we designed a negative-selection purging strategy, to remove myeloma cells from leukapheresis harvests using MAbs specific for Ags on myeloma cells. METHODS: CD38 is highly expressed on myeloma plasma cells, but expressed at lower levels on...
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