ArticleBiology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation2014
Post-transplantation B cell activating factor and B cell recovery before onset of chronic graft-versus-host disease.
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- Use of the NIH consensus criteria in cellular and soluble biomarker research in chronic graft-versus-host disease: A systematic review.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Pooled it
- B-cell activating factor (BAFF) plasma level at the time of chronic GvHD diagnosis is a potential predictor of non-relapse mortality.Bone marrow transplantation · 2017Trial
- Upregulation of IFN-Inducible and Damage-Response Pathways in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) · 2016Trial
- APRIL levels are associated with disease activity in human chronic graft-versus-host disease.Haematologica · 2016Trial
- B-cell reconstitution after lentiviral vector-mediated gene therapy in patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2015Trial
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- Plasma proteins associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease organ involvement.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Delayed B-cell reconstitution in the bone marrow precedes the development of chronic graft-versus-host disease following pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Addressing Knowledge Gaps in the Early Detection of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Article
- TLR7 signaling: a central nexus in autoimmunity and cGVHD.Blood advances · 2024Article
- Hematopoietic stem cell-derived Tregs are essential for maintaining favorable B cell lymphopoiesis following posttransplant cyclophosphamide.JCI insight · 2023Article
- A Phase I Trial of SYK Inhibition with Fostamatinib in the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2023Article
- Perspectives on oral chronic graft-versus-host disease from immunobiology to morbid diagnoses.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Current Definitions and Clinical Implications of Biomarkers in Graft-versus-Host Disease.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2022Review
- Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation resets T- and B-cell compartments in sickle cell disease patients.Clinical & translational immunology · 2022Article
- Novel pre-clinical mouse models for chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- BAFF blockade attenuates acute graft-versus-host disease directlyFrontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Insights from integrating clinical and preclinical studies advance understanding of graft-versus-host disease.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2021Review
- National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: I. The 2020 Etiology and Prevention Working Group Report.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2021Review
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Abstract
Excessive levels of B cell activating factor (BAFF) are found in patients with active chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD). In mice, BAFF has been shown to be essential for B cell recovery after myeloablation. To assess how BAFF levels relate to transplantation factors and subsequent development of cGVHD, we prospectively monitored 412 patients in the first year after allogeneic peripheral blood or bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and censored data at time of cGVHD onset. In patients who did not develop cGVHD, we affirmed a temporal pattern of gradually decreasing BAFF levels as B cell numbers increase after myeloablative conditioning. In contrast, after reduced-intensity conditioning, BAFF levels remained high throughout the first post-HSCT year, suggesting that the degree of myeloablation resulted in delayed B cell recovery associated with persistence of higher BAFF levels. Given that high BAFF/B cell ratios have been associated with active cGVHD, we examined differences in early BAFF/B cell ratios and found significantly different BAFF/B cell ratios at 3 months post-HSCT only after myeloablative conditioning in patients who subsequently developed cGVHD. In addition to HSCT conditioning type, the use of sirolimus was significantly associated with higher BAFF levels after HSCT, and this also was potentially related to lower B cell numbers. Taken together, our results are important for interpreting BAFF measurements in cGVHD biomarker studies.
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