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 …

Modern approaches to HLA-haploidentical blood or marrow transplantation

CG Kanakry, EJ Fuchs, L Luznik - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2016 - nature.com
Allogeneic blood or bone-marrow transplantation (alloBMT) is a potentially curative
treatment for a variety of haematological malignancies and nonmalignant diseases …

Phase II trial of costimulation blockade with abatacept for prevention of acute GVHD

B Watkins, M Qayed, C McCracken… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Severe (grade 3-4) acute graft-versus-host disease (AGVHD) is a major cause of
death after unrelated-donor (URD) hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT), resulting in …

[PDF][PDF] A pilot study of operational tolerance with a regulatory T‐cell‐based cell therapy in living donor liver transplantation

S Todo, K Yamashita, R Goto, M Zaitsu, A Nagatsu… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Potent immunosuppressive drugs have significantly improved early patient survival after
liver transplantation (LT). However, long‐term results remain unsatisfactory because of …

Graft-versus-host disease

JLM Ferrara, JE Levine, P Reddy, E Holler - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Haemopoietic-cell transplantation (HCT) is an intensive therapy used to treat high-risk
haematological malignant disorders and other life-threatening haematological and genetic …

[HTML][HTML] HLA-haploidentical bone marrow transplantation for hematologic malignancies using nonmyeloablative conditioning and high-dose, posttransplantation …

L Luznik, PV O'Donnell, HJ Symons, AR Chen… - Biology of Blood and …, 2008 - Elsevier
We evaluated the safety and efficacy of high-dose, posttransplantation cyclophosphamide
(Cy) to prevent graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after outpatient …

Post-transplantation cyclophosphamide for tolerance induction in HLA-haploidentical bone marrow transplantation

L Luznik, PV O'Donnell, EJ Fuchs - Seminars in oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) is a potentially curative therapy
for many hematologic and immunologic diseases. Further, partial or full donor hematopoietic …

Complexities of CD28/B7: CTLA-4 costimulatory pathways in autoimmunity and transplantation

B Salomon, JA Bluestone - Annual review of immunology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in the understanding of T cell activation have led to new therapeutic
approaches in the treatment of immunological disorders. One attractive target of intervention …

Nonmyeloablative bone marrow transplantation from partially HLA-mismatched related donors using posttransplantation cyclophosphamide

PV O'donnell, L Luznik, RJ Jones… - Biology of Blood and …, 2002 - tctjournal.org
Cyclophosphamide (Cy) is a potent immunosuppressive agent that is selectively toxic to
lymphocytes proliferating in response to recent antigen stimulation. In animal models, both …

Crystal structure of the B7-1/CTLA-4 complex that inhibits human immune responses

CC Stamper, Y Zhang, JF Tobin, DV Erbe, S Ikemizu… - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Optimal immune responses require both an antigen-specific and a co-stimulatory signal. The
shared ligands B7-1 and B7-2 on antigen-presenting cells deliver the co-stimulatory signal …