"Bone Marrow Purging" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Techniques for the removal of subpopulations of cells (usually residual tumor cells) from the bone marrow ex vivo before it is infused. The purging is achieved by a variety of agents including pharmacologic agents, biophysical agents (laser photoirradiation or radioisotopes) and immunologic agents. Bone marrow purging is used in both autologous and allogeneic BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION.
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D016465
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.120.142
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Bone Marrow Purging" by people in Profiles.
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Bone marrow purging studies in acute myelogenous leukemia using the recombinant anti-CD33 immunotoxin HuM195/rGel. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2003 Jun; 9(6):364-72.
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Effect of combined treatment with interleukin-3 and interleukin-6 on 4-hydroperoxycyclo-phosphamide-induced programmed cell death or apoptosis in human myeloid leukemia cells. Exp Hematol. 1993 Dec; 21(13):1640-7.
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Autologous bone marrow transplantation for leukemia. Semin Oncol. 1993 Oct; 20(5 Suppl 6):40-54.