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Host conditioning with 5-fluorouracil and kit-ligand to provide for long-term bone marrow engraftment.
Blood - 1 Apr 1997
van Os R, Dawes D, Mislow J M, Witsell A, Mauch P M
Abstract excerpt
Administration of kit-ligand (KL) before and after doses of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) results in marrow failure in mice, presumably because of enhanced KL-induced cycling of stem cells, which makes them more susceptible to the effects of 5-FU. In attempt to capitalize on this effect on stem cells, we studied the ability of KL and 5-FU to allow stable donor engraftment of congenically marked marrow in a C57BL/6 (B6)...
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