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ReviewBiology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation2012

Mesenchymal stromal cells: a new tool against graft-versus-host disease?

Frédéric Baron, Rainer Storb

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In one paragraph

Review in Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Steroids Versus Steroids Plus Additional Agent in Frontline Treatment of Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2016
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  15. Exploring the roles of MSCs in infections: focus on bacterial diseases.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Frédéric BaronDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University and CHU of Liège, CHU Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium. f.baron@ulg.ac.be
Rainer Storb
University of Liège · BEUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Translational Bioimaging Core Shared ResourceP30CA015704 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Marian Esvelt · 1985 to 2026
$296.4M
Project 3: Stem Cell Allografts for Lymphoid MalignanciesP01CA078902 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI SANDMAIER, BRENDA MARIE · 1999 to 2025
$46.1M
UNRELATED AND HLA-MISMATCHED RELATED DONOR TRANSPLANTSP01HL036444 · NHLBI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI RAWLINGS, DAVID J · 1986 to 2010
$25.9M
NCI NIH HHS CA78902NCI NIH HHS P01 CA078902NCI NIH HHS P30 CA015704NHLBI NIH HHS HL36444NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL036444
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) represent a heterogeneous subset of multipotent cells that can be isolated from several tissues including bone marrow and fat. MSCs exhibit immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties that prompted their clinical use as prevention and/or treatment for severe graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Although a number of phase I-II studies have suggested that MSC infusion was safe and might be effective for preventing or treating acute GVHD, definitive proof of their efficacy remains lacking thus far. Multicenter randomized studies are ongoing to more precisely assess the impact of MSC infusion on GVHD prevention/treatment, whereas further research is performed in vitro and in animal models with the aims of determining the best way to expand MSCs ex vivo as well as the most efficient dose and schedule of MSCs administration. After introducing GVHD, MSC biology, and results of MSC infusion in animal models of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, this article reviews the results of the first clinical trials investigating the use of MSC infusion as prevention or treatment of GVHD.

Indexed as

Graft vs Host DiseaseAnimalsClinical Trials as TopicDisease Models, AnimalDogsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationMiceTransplantation, Homologous

Identifiers

PMID21963621
PMCPMC3310956
OpenAlexW2172019611

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