Response to Caravita di Toritto and Rago

Roza Chaireti^{1

2}, Katarina Uttervall^{1

3}, Vincent Luong^{1

3}, Johan Lund¹, Muhammad Kashif³, Gösta Gahrton³, Evren Alici^{1

3}, Hareth Nahi³, Gabriel Afram^{1

3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Hematology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Pfizer AB, Sollentuna, Sweden.

Comment

Roza Chaireti et al. Eur J Haematol. 2023 Feb.

. 2023 Feb;110(2):224-225.

doi: 10.1111/ejh.13887. Epub 2022 Nov 7.

Roza Chaireti^{1

2}, Katarina Uttervall^{1

3}, Vincent Luong^{1

3}, Johan Lund¹, Muhammad Kashif³, Gösta Gahrton³, Evren Alici^{1

3}, Hareth Nahi³, Gabriel Afram^{1

3

4}

¹ Department of Hematology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Pfizer AB, Sollentuna, Sweden.

No abstract available

Comment on

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