Oral Mucositis-Related Oropharyngeal Pain and Correlative Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Expression in Adult Oncology Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Background: Oral mucositis is the most common sequela of conditioning chemotherapy (CT) for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and is the principal cause of most of the associated pain. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is a key pathogenic component of oral mucositis. Objectives: The prima...

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Published in:	Clinical therapeutics Vol. 29; no. 11; pp. 2547 - 2561
Main Authors:	FalI-Dickson, Jane M., Ramsay, Edward S., Castro, Kathleen, Woltz, Patricia, Sportés, Claude
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States EM Inc USA 2007
Subjects:	Adult Aged Female Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation - adverse effects Humans Internal Medicine Male Medical Education Middle Aged Neoplasms - therapy Pain - etiology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Saliva - chemistry Stomatitis - etiology Stomatitis - physiopathology Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - analysis Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - blood Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - genetics
ISSN:	0149-2918, 1879-114X
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