Advances in graft-versus-host disease biology and therapy

BR Blazar, WJ Murphy, M Abedi - Nature reviews immunology, 2012 - nature.com
Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is used to treat a variety of disorders,
but its efficacy is limited by the occurrence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The past …

Graft-versus-host disease

WD Shlomchik - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2007 - nature.com
Allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (SCT) is a curative therapy for
haematological malignancies and inherited disorders of blood cells, such as sickle-cell …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenomic analysis of the stool microbiome in patients receiving allogeneic stem cell transplantation: loss of diversity is associated with use of systemic …

E Holler, P Butzhammer, K Schmid… - Biology of Blood and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Next-generation sequencing of the hypervariable V3 region of the 16s rRNA gene isolated
from serial stool specimens collected from 31 patients receiving allogeneic stem cell …

Immunobiology of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

LA Welniak, BR Blazar, WJ Murphy - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has evolved into an effective
adoptive cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of a number of cancers. The …

Acute graft-versus-host disease: a bench-to-bedside update

SG Holtan, M Pasquini… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Over the past 5 years, many novel approaches to early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment
of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) have been translated from the bench to the …

Dendritic cell homeostasis

M Merad, MG Manz - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) are a heterogeneous fraction of rare hematopoietic cells that coevolved
with the formation of the adaptive immune system. DCs efficiently process and present …

Reciprocal differentiation and tissue-specific pathogenesis of Th1, Th2, and Th17 cells in graft-versus-host disease

T Yi, Y Chen, L Wang, G Du, D Huang… - Blood, The Journal …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
In acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), naive donor CD4+ T cells recognize alloantigens
on host antigen-presenting cells and differentiate into T helper (Th) subsets (Th1, Th2, and …

The biology of graft-versus-host disease: experimental systems instructing clinical practice

KA Markey, KPA MacDonald… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
The last 6 decades have seen major advances in the understanding of immunologic
diseases, driven by preclinical animal models. Indeed, bone marrow transplantation (BMT) …

Acute graft-versus-host disease: from the bench to the bedside

G Socié, BR Blazar - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
During the past decade, progress in basic immunology has been impressive. In parallel,
whereas our understanding of the pathophysiology of acute graft-versus-host disease …

Redefining the role of langerhans cells as immune regulators within the skin

HC West, CL Bennett - Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Langerhans cells (LC) are a unique population of tissue-resident macrophages that form a
network of cells across the epidermis of the skin, but which have the ability to migrate from …