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Immunomagnetic Separation

"Immunomagnetic Separation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A cell-separation technique where magnetizable microspheres or beads are first coated with monoclonal antibody, allowed to search and bind to target cells, and are then selectively removed when passed through a magnetic field. Among other applications, the technique is commonly used to remove tumor cells from the marrow (BONE MARROW PURGING) of patients who are to undergo autologous bone marrow transplantation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Immunomagnetic Separation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Immunomagnetic Separation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 8 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1994 and 1998 and 1999 and 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2013 and 2015
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