Article
Recipient origin of bone marrow-derived fibroblastic stromal cells during all periods following bone marrow transplantation in humans.
British journal of haematology - 1 Nov 1991
Agematsu K, Nakahori Y
Abstract excerpt
The bone marrow microenvironment, which is composed of fibroblasts, endothelial cells, adipocytes and macrophages, plays an important role in the haematopoiesis and lymphopoiesis by producing various cytokines. Therefore, investigation of the origin of these cells following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is very significant, in terms of the haematological and immunological reconstitution after BMT....
Topics
- Adolescent
- Blotting, Southern
- Bone Marrow
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Genotype
- Graft Survival
