Antibiotics may impair hematopoietic recovery after cytotoxic myeloablation
Letter 2009 en
Authors
MT
Marc Tjwa
LM
Lieve Moons
CV
Catherine M. Verfaillie
Abstract
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To the editor:
Patients recovering from myelotoxic chemotherapy require antibiotic treatment to prevent infectious complications, because of their immunocompromised status. Antibiotics such as doxycylin and tetracyclin are known to inhibit matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) including MMP-9.[1][1
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