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ArticleThe Korean journal of internal medicine2018

Third-party regulatory T cells prevent murine acute graft-versus-host disease.

Jung-Yeon Lim, Keon-Il Im, Yunejin Song, Nayoun Kim, Young-Sun Nam, Young-Woo Jeon, Seok-Goo Cho

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Article in The Korean journal of internal medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Regulatory T Cells in GVHD Therapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2021
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  5. The immune response is a prerequisite for the development of CD4International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jung-Yeon LimInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Keon-Il ImInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Yunejin SongInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Nayoun KimInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Young-Sun NamInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Young-Woo JeonInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Seok-Goo ChoInstitute for Translational Research and Molecular Imaging, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Catholic University of Korea · KRSeoul St. Mary's Hospital · KR

Funding

Catholic University of KoreaMinistry of Education, Science and TechnologyMinistry of Health and WelfareNational Research Foundation of Korea 2016R1A2B4007282
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND/

aimsAdoptive therapy with regulatory T (Treg) cells to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) would benefit from a strategy to improve homing to the sites of inflammation following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Although donor-derived Treg cells have mainly been used in these models, third-party-derived Treg cells are a promising alternative for cell-based immunotherapy, as they can be screened for pathogens and cell activity, and banked for GVHD prevention. In this study, we explored major histocompatibility complex (MHC) disparities between Treg cells and conventional T cells in HSCT to evaluate the impact of these different cell populations on the prevention of acute GVHD, as well as survival after allogeneic transplantation.

methodsTo induce acute GVHD, lethally irradiated BALB/c (H-2d) mice were transplanted with 5 × 105 T cell-depleted bone marrow cells and 5 × 105 CD4+CD25- splenic T cells from C57BL/6 (H-2b) mice. Recipients were injected with 5 × 105 cultured donor-, host-, or third-party-derived CD4+CD25+CD62L+ Treg cells (bone marrow transplantation + day 1).

resultsSystemic infusion of three groups of Treg cell improved clinicopathological manifestations and survival in an acute GVHD model. Although donor-derived Treg cells were immunologically the most effective, the third-party-derived Treg cell therapy group displayed equal regulation of expansion of CD4+CD25+- Foxp3+ Treg cells and suppressive CD4+IL-17+ T-helper (Th17) cells in ex vivo assays compared with the donor- and host-derived groups.

conclusionOur findings demonstrate that the use of third-party Treg cells is a viable alternative to donor-derived Treg cellular therapy in clinical settings, in which human leukocyte antigen-matched donors are not always readily available.

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Graft vs Host DiseaseT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAcute DiseaseAnimalsCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyDisease Models, AnimalHumansMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLAcute graft-versus host diseaseHematopoietic stem cell transplantationT-Lymphocytes, regulatory

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PMID29050459
PMCPMC6129628
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