Medicina: Ematologia: Talassemie e trapianto del midollo osseo
| English |
| lymphocytopoiesis |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Definition |
The process in which lymphocytes, white blood cells that fight infection and disease, are created.
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| Definition source |
Cancerweb. OMD – On-line Medical Dictionary.
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| Context |
This is a large family of factors predominantly governing lymphocytopoiesis, but many members also have broad effects on other lineages. The discovery of new growth factors and the biologic consequences of deficiencies or excesses of these factors continues to evolve rapidly.
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| Context source |
Bornhauser, M., et al. (1999). ‘Mycophenolate mofetil and cyclosporine as graft-versus-host disease prophilaxis after allogeneic blood stem cell transplantation’. Transplantation 67(4):499. (RISCEN107)
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| Subject field |
Haemopoiesis
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| Generic concept |
Haemopoiesis
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| Specific concept |
Erythropoiesis, megakaryocytopoiesis
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| Coordinate concept |
Myelopoiesis
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| Related concept |
Hemoglobin, anemia, erythron, erythrocyte, lymphocyte, granulocyte, monocyte, platelet
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| it |
Linfocitopoiesi
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| Reliability code |
3
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