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Blood transfusion is associated with donor leukocyte microchimerism in trauma patients.
The Journal of trauma - 1 Oct 2004
Utter Garth H, Owings John T, Lee Tzong-Hae, Paglieroni Teresa G, Reed William F, Gosselin Robert C, Holland Paul V, Busch Michael P
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INTRODUCTION: Blood transfusion can result in survival of donor leukocyte subpopulations in the recipient. Persistence of donor leukocytes in the transfusion recipient is termed microchimerism. Microchimerism likely reflects engraftment of the recipient with donor hematopoietic stem cells and is...
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