Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 14, Issue 12 , Pages 1373-1379 , December 2008

Early Recovery of CD4 T Cell Receptor Diversity after “Lymphoablative” Conditioning and Autologous CD34 Cell Transplantation

  • Jan Storek

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
    • Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Jan Storek, MD, PhD, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, HSC 1869, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1.
  • ,
  • Zhao Zhao

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • ,
  • Yiping Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • ,
  • Richard Nash

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  • ,
  • Peter McSweeney

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
    • Rocky Mountain Cancer Center, Denver, Colorado
  • ,
  • David G. Maloney

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Received 15 August 2008 ,Accepted 14 September 2008.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 1378.

PII: S1083-8791(08)00404-7

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.09.013

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 14, Issue 12 , Pages 1373-1379 , December 2008