Cell transplantability, effect

Cooper BW, Creger RJ, Soegiarso W, Mackay WL, Lazarus HM. Renal dysfunction during high-dose cisplatin therapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation effect of aminoglycoside therapy. Am JMed 99y) 94, 497-504. 

O Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a procedure used mainly to treat hematologic malignancies via high-dose chemotherapy and/or a graft-versus-tumor effect. 

Although infusion pumps can go some way towards mimicking normal control of blood insulin levels, transplantation of insulin-producing pancreatic cells should effectively cure the diabetic patient, and research aimed at underpinning this approach continues. 

Small, T.N. et al., Comparison of immune reconstitution after unrelated and related T-cell-depleted bone marrow transplantation effect of patient age and donor leukocyte infusions,... 

Petersdorf EW, KoIIman C, Hurley CK, Dupont B, Nademanee A, Begovich AB, Weisdorf D, McGIave P. Effect of HLA class II gene disparity on clinical outcome in unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia the US National Marrow Donor Program Experience. Blood. 2001 Nov 15 98(10) 2922-9. 

Much work has been done in the area of vascular growth factors to create collateral circulation, but so far clinical efforts have fallen short of predictions. The new field of cell transplantation may provide the necessary milieu and may be more effective at inducing neovascularization in ischemic myocardium. Fibroblast growth factor in... 

Wake, M.C., Patrick, C.W and Mikos, A.G., Pore morphology effects on the fibrovas-cular tissue growth in porous polymer substrates. Cell Transplant. 3, 339,1994. Gion, T, Shimada, M., Shirada M., et al. Evaluation of a hybrid artificial liver using a polyurethane foam packed-bed culture system in dogs. Journal of Surgical Research 82, 132-136 1999. 

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