Syk and tired of current chronic GVHD therapies.
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In this issue of Blood, Flynn et al1 provide key data that lend further support to the development of clinical trials of spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk) inhibition for more effective chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) treatment.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Blood
دوره 125 26 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015