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Hematopoietic growth factors and transfusion medicine
- Source :
- Transfusion Medicine Reviews. 12:195-205
- Publication Year :
- 1998
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1998.
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Abstract
- At least 20 different hematopoietic drugs (see Table 1) are currently under investigation. These most likely will impact on all aspects of transfusion therapy. Which agents to use and in what combinations will be the subject of scrutiny for many years to come as scientists try to recreate and enhance the process of hematopoiesis. Perhaps someday blood cells and hematopoietic progenitor cells can be manufactured for therapy with genetically selected phenotypes to avoid immune destruction and rejection. If this comes to pass, blood donations as we know them today, as a valuable adjunct to medical care, will fade into history, supplanted by the use of hematopoietic growth factors.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Biochemistry (medical)
Clinical Biochemistry
Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors
Blood Component Transfusion
Transfusion medicine
Hematology
Medical care
Blood donations
Haematopoiesis
Immunology
medicine
Humans
Hematopoietic progenitor cells
Transfusion therapy
Intensive care medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08877963
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transfusion Medicine Reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....997161be4ccb020dd584c6e6e3c5a0d8