129 Scavenging of contaminated meat (
rather than the bone marrow and amputated legs of my examples) is perhaps best left to animals with specialized guts; see Ragir et al (2000).
Some studies have suggested that using peripheral blood cells
rather than bone marrow was associated with more severe GVHD.
Not exact matches
«Our approach represents a different way of looking at leukemia and considers the entire
bone marrow as an ecosystem,
rather than the traditional approach of studying and trying to directly kill the diseased cells themselves,» said Allison Boyd, postdoctoral fellow with the research institute and first author of the study.
They found the islets survived better if
bone marrow was injected into the thymus
rather than into the blood.
Two studies finger
bone -
marrow defects
rather than cells as culprits in blood disorders known as myeloproliferative syndromes
Importantly, researchers found that the drugs are only effective when administered directly into a vein (intravenous),
rather than the more commonly used technique of administering the drugs directly into
bone marrow (intraosseous).
Administering heart resuscitation drugs to patients whose cardiac arrest is witnessed at the time of the attack can improve survival, but needs to be done through an IV line
rather than directly into
bone marrow as is more commonly done by paramedics, a new study involving UT Southwestern Medical Center emergency physicians and Dallas - Fort Worth Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies reveals.
In an outpatient blood and
bone marrow stem cell transplant, the patient undergoes the full course of treatment (pre-transplant evaluation, conditioning, infusion of their stem cells, engraftment and recovery) on an outpatient basis
rather than being admitted to the hospital for three to four weeks of treatment.
Dr. Fred Appelbaum, director of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, argued in an accompanying editorial that adult stem cells harvested from
bone marrow rather than blood should be the norm.
For most unrelated donor transplants,
bone marrow rather than peripheral blood should be the first choice, he argued.