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They might need a bone-marrow transplant or take medication, such as erythropoetin or filgrastim, to stimulate the bone marrow's production of blood cells.
Amid Nuclear Fears, Some Facts Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011
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Frye-Revere seemed much more comfortable with bone marrow selling leading us down a slippery-slope, whereas Childress was a bit more wary of the slippery slope but felt that bone marrow selling creates a natural halt in the slippery slope due to bone marrow's renewability.
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But later it was found that he had a bone marrow depression, an abnormal condition characterized by the bone marrow's inability to produce normal amounts of white blood cells,red blood cells and platelets.
Archive 2006-03-01 Abodh 2006
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But later it was found that he had a bone marrow depression, an abnormal condition characterized by the bone marrow's inability to produce normal amounts of white blood cells,red blood cells and platelets.
Snowy Abodh 2006
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If they found a tissue match they'd kill all her own bone marrow with radiation, which makes the children terribly nauseous and wretched, and then when the marrow's all dead they transfuse new liquid marrow into the veins and hope it will migrate into the bones and start making leukaemia-free blood there, and quite often it works
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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If they found a tissue match they'd kill all her own bone marrow with radiation, which makes the children terribly nauseous and wretched, and then when the marrow's all dead they transfuse new liquid marrow into the veins and hope it will migrate into the bones and start making leukaemia-free blood there, and quite often it works … and sometimes a child can be born with one blood group and be transfused with another.
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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It's a cancer of the bone marrow's plasma cells that form tumors on the bone.
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She took medication to boost her marrow's production of stem cells, and five days later had blood drawn and the excess stem cells filtered off.
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She took medication to boost her marrow's production of stem cells, and five days later had blood drawn and the excess stem cells filtered off.
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Earlier studies had found that hormonal changes in malnourished people trigger the bone marrow's mesenchymal osteoporosis, the researchers said.
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