Sentences with phrase «immature blood cells»

The disease is characterized by an overproduction of immature blood cells.

AML is an aggressive disease of malignant immature blood cells which, if left untreated, almost always causes the death of the affected patient.

Vidaza, from Pharmion, was approved for myelodysplastic syndromes, a bone marrow disorder marked by rapidly dividing immature blood cells that no longer respond to growth - control mechanisms.

Disorders of the blood cells may prove more amenable to such therapy, because immature blood cells are easily accessible and transplanted.

Stem cells are immature blood cells and, in theory, introducing the gene into them should produce a permanent change in that individual's maturing blood cells.

For instance, a sudden change in the number of reticulocytes, or immature blood cells, might provide indirect evidence that an athlete has used erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that stimulates the generation of red blood cells and boosts the oxygen - carrying capacity of the blood.

Stem cells (immature blood cells) are removed from the blood or bone marrow of the patient (autologous transplant) or a donor (allogeneic transplant) and are frozen and stored.