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"Suicide" gene for the control of graft-versus-host disease.
Current opinion in hematology - 1 Nov 1998
Tiberghien P
Abstract excerpt
Specific and conditional in vivo ablation of alloreactive donor T cells after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation could significantly contribute to preventing and treating graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The use of donor T cells expressing a "suicide" gene such as the thymidine kinase gene of the herpes simplex virus 1 (HS-tk) has the potential of achieving such a goal. Ex vivo...
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