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Marked telomere shortening in mobilized peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) following two tightly spaced high-dose chemotherapy courses with G-CSF

The purpose of the study was to compare telomere length (TL) in peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) collected after two tightly spaced high-dose (hd) chemotherapy courses. We assessed 37 ...
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Slow platelet recovery after PBPC transplantation from unrelated donors

The effect of the composition of the PBPC grafts from MRDs and from MUDs on hematologic recovery of the patents was studied, with particular attention to the differences between MRD and MUD grafts.
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Large volume peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) harvest in 27 pediatric solid tumor patients weighing less than 20 Kg

Preliminary data of a phase I-II clinical and pharmacokinetic study of plitidepsin in children with malignant tumors. On behalf of the European ITCC (Innovative Therapies for Children with Cancer) ...
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Prediction of Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell Collection by Measurement of CD34+ cells in the Preapheresis Blood

Preapheresis quantification of circulating CD34+ cells (CD34) may be used to predict peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) yield in subsequent leukapheresis products. In this study, we ...
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Hematopoietic rescue after high-dose chemotherapy using autologous peripheral-blood progenitor cells or bone marrow: a randomized comparison.

Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor accelerates neutrophil engraftment following peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation: a prospective, randomized trial. From January 1991 until April 1993, 47 ...