High-Dose Therapy and Transplantation of Haematopoietic Stem Cells
Contributors: Wolfgang Schultze (Editor); Bad Saarow (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: April 15, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780632055982
First sentence: The finding by JACOBSON et al. [4] in 1949, that mice could be protected from the marrow lethal effects of ionizing total body irradiation (TBI) by shielding their spleens with lead marked the start of the modern era of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).