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Donor single nucleotide polymorphism in the CCR9 gene affects the incidence of skin GVHD.
Bone marrow transplantation - 1 Feb 2010
Inamoto Y, Murata M, Katsumi A, Kuwatsuka Y, Tsujimura A, Ishikawa Y, Sugimoto K, Onizuka M, Terakura S, Nishida T, Kanie T, Taji H, Iida H, Suzuki R, Abe A, Kiyoi H, Matsushita T, Miyamura K, Kodera Y, Naoe T
Abstract excerpt
The interactions between chemokines and their receptors may have an important role in initiating GVHD after allogeneic hematopoietic SCT (allo-HSCT). CCL25 and CCR9 are unique because they are exclusively expressed in epithelial cells and in Peyer's patches of the small intestine. We focused on r...
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