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New applications of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for healing different tissues and organs /

Nagy Mahmoud Nagy

New applications of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for healing different tissues and organs / التطبيقات الحديثة لزرع الخلايا الجذعية فى علاج الانسجة و الاعضاء المختلفة Nagy Mahmoud Nagy ; Suppervised Sherief Nasseh Amien , Hanan Nour - Cairo : Nagy Mahmoud Nagy , 2005 - 134P : ill ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Clinical and Chemical Pathology

Following the discovery that bone marrow transplantation could be used to rescue irradiated mice , the identification and characterization of the haemopoietic stem cells has become essential in order to achieve new developments in stem cells expantion and transplantation (Scott and gordon , 1995) Bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is used in the treatment of cancer for two reasonsFirst , transplantation permits exploitation of the steep dose - response relationship seen in some tumors by allowing dministration of doses of systemic chemotherapy and radiotherapy that without transplantation would cause unacceptably sever or lethal



bone marrow transplantation Chemotherapy peripheral blood stem cells