Published in Hematology Week, August 2nd, 2004
"Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is triggered by host antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that activate donor T cells to proliferate and differentiate, but which APC-activated donor T-cell subsets mediate GVHD versus beneficial antitumor effects is not known.
"Using a CD8+ T cell-dependent mouse model of human GVHD, we found that host dendritic cell (DC)-induced CD44hiCD8+ effector/ memory T cells were functionally defective in inducing GVHD, whereas CD44loCD8+ naive phenotype T cells were extremely potent GVHD inducers,"...
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Source: Hematology Week (2004-08-02)
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