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Induction of Alloantigen-specific Anergy in Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by Alloantigen Stimulation with Co-stimulatory Signal Blockade
Published on: March 14, 2011
Are B lymphocytes involved in allograft/tumor rejection and GVH?
1Tissue-Typing Laboratory, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, Camden, NJ 08103.
Abstract:
Several earlier observations by us and other investigators led us to propose a thesis that B lymphocytes, when activated by a virus, allo-antigen or bacterial protein would enter into effector arm of the immune response and cause allograft and tumor rejection or GVH-type of lesion in immunosuppressed animals. These effector cells may act directly in the process by contact with other cells or liberating cytokines. Such an hypothesis needs further support from experiments involving cancer and transplantation patients' B cells.
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