Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 173-182 , February 2009

Rabbit Anti T-Lymphocyte Globulin Induces Apoptosis in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Compartments and Leukemia Cells, While Hematopoetic Stem Cells Are Apoptosis Resistant

  • Carsten Grüllich

      Affiliations

    • Albert Ludwigs-University Medical Center Freiburg, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Freiburg, Germany
    • National Center for Tumor Diseases at Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Carsten Grüllich, MD, National Center for Tumor Diseases at Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 350, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
    • ,
  • Christian Ziegler

      Affiliations

    • Albert Ludwigs-University Medical Center Freiburg, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Jürgen Finke

      Affiliations

    • Albert Ludwigs-University Medical Center Freiburg, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Freiburg, Germany

Received 5 August 2008 ,Accepted 9 November 2008.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 180.

PII: S1083-8791(08)00504-1

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.11.014

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 2 , Pages 173-182 , February 2009

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