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Conversion of the severe to the moderate disease phenotype with donor leukocyte microchimerism in canine leukocyte adhesion deficiency.
Bone marrow transplantation - 1 Mar 2006
Gu Y-C, Bauer T R, Sokolic R A, Hai M, Tuschong L M, Burkholder T, Bacher J, Starost M F, Hickstein D D
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Leukocyte adhesion deficiency-1 (LAD-1), a genetic immunodeficiency disease characterized by life-threatening bacterial infections, results from the defective adherence and migration of leukocytes due to mutations in the leukocyte integrin CD18 molecule. Canine LAD (CLAD) represents the canine homologue of the severe phenotype of LAD-1 in children. In previous studies we demonstrated that non-myeloablative stem...
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