Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
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Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 14, Problem 1A
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Bone marrow transplantation makes the patients highly prone to infections.
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Bone marrow is asemisolid tissue found inside the bones. It is a site for hematopoiesis that is the formation of new blood cells from hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). These cells are multipotent and self-renewing. Bone marrow transplantation is the transplantation of these multipotent and self-renewingHSCs. Transplantation is of two types:autologous: type of transplantation in which stem cells of the patient’s own body are used;allogenic: type of transplantation in which stem cells of a donor are used.
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