Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 13, Issue 12 , Pages 1469-1476 , December 2007

A Scheme for Defining Cause of Death and Its Application in the T Cell Depletion Trial

  • Edward Copelan

      Affiliations

    • Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Edward A. Copelan, MD, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, R35, Cleveland, OH 44195; Tel: 216-445-5647; Fax: 216-444-9464.
    • ,
  • James T. Casper

      Affiliations

    • Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
    • ,
  • Shelly L. Carter

      Affiliations

    • The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, MD
    • ,
  • Jo-Anne H. van Burik

      Affiliations

    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    • ,
  • David Hurd

      Affiliations

    • Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
    • ,
  • Adam M. Mendizabal

      Affiliations

    • The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, MD
    • ,
  • John E. Wagner

      Affiliations

    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    • ,
  • Saul Yanovich

      Affiliations

    • Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
    • ,
  • Nancy A. Kernan

      Affiliations

    • Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Received 10 August 2007 ,Accepted 27 August 2007.

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 This work was supported by a contract from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (N01-HB-47095 [J.E.W., J.H.V.], N01-HB-47097 [John S. Thompson, M.D., J.C., D.H., E.C.,S.Y.], N01-HB-47094 [S.L.C., A.M.M.] and N01-HB-47098 [N.A.K.]).

PII: S1083-8791(07)00436-3

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.08.047

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 13, Issue 12 , Pages 1469-1476 , December 2007

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