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Target antigens determine graft-versus-host disease phenotype.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Nov 2004
Kaplan Daniel H, Anderson Britt E, McNiff Jennifer M, Jain Dhanpat, Shlomchik Mark J, Shlomchik Warren D
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Chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) is an increasingly frequent complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Phenotypically, cGVHD differs from patient to patient; in particular, a subset of patients develops extensive cutaneous fibrosis. Similarly, graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is distinct in inbred murine donor:recipient pairings, indicating a genetic component to disease phenotype. The B10.D2...
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