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Reduced frequency of FOXP3+ CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease.
Blood - 15 Oct 2005
Zorn Emmanuel, Kim Haesook T, Lee Stephanie J, Floyd Blair H, Litsa Despina, Arumugarajah Sankari, Bellucci Roberto, Alyea Edwin P, Antin Joseph H, Soiffer Robert J, Ritz Jerome
Abstract excerpt
Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a major complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation but the immune mechanisms leading to the diverse clinical manifestations of cGVHD remain unknown. In this study, we examined regulatory T cells (Tregs) in 57 transplant recipients (30 with cGVHD and 27 without active cGVHD) and 26 healthy donors. Phenotypic studies demonstrated decreased...
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