Are haematopoietic stem cell transplants stem cell transplants, is there a threshold dose of CD34-positive cells and how many are needed for rapid posttransplant granulocyte recovery?

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China. chenjunren@ihcams.ac.cn.
• ² Tianjin Institutes of Health Science, Tianjin, China. chenjunren@ihcams.ac.cn.
• ³ Centre for Haematology, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK.
• ⁴ State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China.
• ⁵ Tianjin Institutes of Health Science, Tianjin, China.
• ⁶ Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
• ⁷ Blood and Cell Therapy Institute, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Blood Research and Applications, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
• ⁸ Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. zmsun@ustc.edu.cn.
• ⁹ Blood and Cell Therapy Institute, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Blood Research and Applications, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. zmsun@ustc.edu.cn.