Experimental Hematology
Volume 36, Issue 9 , Pages 1073-1077 , September 2008

Fetal-maternal microchimerism in normal parous females and parous female cancer patients

Received 21 December 2007 ,Revised 26 March 2008 ,Accepted 27 March 2008.

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PII: S0301-472X(08)00153-7

doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2008.03.020

Experimental Hematology
Volume 36, Issue 9 , Pages 1073-1077 , September 2008

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