Experimental Hematology
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 222-232.e2 , March 2010

Auto-reconstitution of the T-cell compartment by radioresistant hematopoietic cells following lethal irradiation and bone marrow transplantation

  • Nabil Bosco

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Group of Developmental and Molecular Immunology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Lee Kim Swee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Group of Developmental and Molecular Immunology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Angèle Bénard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Group of Developmental and Molecular Immunology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Rhodri Ceredig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Group of Developmental and Molecular Immunology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • REMEDI, NCBES, Department of Physiology, National University of Galway, Ireland
    • ,
  • Antonius Rolink

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Group of Developmental and Molecular Immunology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationOffprint requests to: Antonius Rolink, Ph.D., Department of Biomedicine, Group of Developmental and Molecular Immunology, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 28, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

Received 7 September 2009 ,Revised 24 November 2009 ,Accepted 23 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2009.12.006

Experimental Hematology
Volume 38, Issue 3 , Pages 222-232.e2 , March 2010

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