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High-affinity cytotoxic T lymphocytes after non-HLA-sharing blood transfusion--the other side of the coin.
Transplantation - 27 Apr 1994
van Twuyver E, Mooijaart R J, ten Berge I J, van der Horst A R, Wilmink J M, Claas F H, de Waal L P
Abstract excerpt
Previously, we have shown that pretransplantation blood transfusion modulates the T cell repertoire to a great extent. Patients receiving a BT from a donor sharing one HLA haplotype with the patient (HLA-sharing BT) develop CTL nonresponsiveness against cells of the BT donor and show a selective decrease in the usage of T cell receptor V beta families. The present study has focused on the analysis of the T cell...
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