Recipient B Cells Are Not Required for Graft-Versus-Host Disease Induction
Matte-Martone C, Wang X, Anderson B, Jain D, Demetris AJ, McNiff J, Shlomchik MJ, Shlomchik WD. Recipient B Cells Are Not Required for Graft-Versus-Host Disease Induction. Transplantation And Cellular Therapy 2010, 16: 1222-1230. PMID: 20338255, PMCID: PMC3135976, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.03.015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRecipient B cellsAntigen presenting cellsB cellsAllogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationB cell-deficient recipientsImportant antigen presenting cellsRecipient antigen presenting cellsAllogeneic bone marrow transplantationHematopoietic stem cell transplantationCD8-mediated GVHDHost disease inductionB-cell depletionAntibody-mediated depletionHost B cellsCD20 monoclonal antibodyStem cell transplantationT cell responsesBone marrow transplantationGraft-VersusAPC subsetsHost diseaseMarrow transplantationCell depletionCell transplantationPresenting cells