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Nature Medicine 15, 363 - 364 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0409-363

Choosing between GVHD and delayed engraftment

Paul J Martin1

  1. Paul J. Martin is at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. e-mail: pmartin@fhcrc.org


Growth factors used to accelerate engraftment after hematopoietic cell transplantation can increase the severity of graft-versus-host disease. Experiments with mice examine how irradiation, used to prepare recipients for transplants, contributes to this problem (pages 436–441).

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