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Central Memory CD8+ T Cells Induce Graft-versus-Host Disease and Mediate Graft-versus-Leukemia
1 May 2009
Abstract excerpt
In allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation, mature donor alphabeta T cells in the allograft promote T cell reconstitution in the recipient and mediate the graft-vs-leukemia (GVL) effect. Unfortunately, donor T cells can attack nonmalignant host tissues and cause graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). It has previously been shown that effector memory T cells not primed to alloantigen do not cause GVHD yet transfer...
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