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In Vitro and In Vivo Assessment of T, B and Myeloid Cells Suppressive Activity and Humoral Responses from Transplant Recipients
Published on: August 12, 2017
Suppression of graft-versus-host disease by naturally occurring regulatory T cells
Defu Zeng1, Fengshuo Lan, Petra Hoffmann
1Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Studies of graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation have shown that there are subsets of freshly isolated donor T cells that induce the disease and subsets that suppress the disease. The balance of subsets in the graft determines disease severity. The authors' work on the nature of the regulatory-suppressor T cells and their mechanisms of action is summarized in this article.
Studies of graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation have shown that there are subsets of freshly isolated donor T cells that induce the disease and subsets that suppress the disease. The balance of subsets in the graft determines disease severity. The authors' work on the nature of the regulatory-suppressor T cells and their mechanisms of action is summarized in this article.
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