Targeting natural killer cells and natural killer T cells in cancer

E Vivier, S Ugolini, D Blaise, C Chabannon… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells and natural killer T (NKT) cells are subsets of lymphocytes that share
some phenotypical and functional similarities. Both cell types can rapidly respond to the …

Pathophysiology of GvHD and other HSCT-related major complications

S Ghimire, D Weber, E Mavin, XN Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
For over 60 years, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been the major curative
therapy for several hematological and genetic disorders, but its efficacy is limited by the …

Posttransplant cyclophosphamide for prevention of graft-versus-host disease: results of the prospective randomized HOVON-96 trial

AEC Broers, CN de Jong, K Bakunina… - Blood …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is the most important complication of allogeneic
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT). We performed a prospective …

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation: a historical and scientific overview

AK Singh, JP McGuirk - Cancer research, 2016 - AACR
The field of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) has made ground-breaking progress
in the treatment of many malignant and nonmalignant conditions. It has also pioneered the …

[HTML][HTML] History of hematopoietic cell transplantation: challenges and progress

N Granot, R Storb - Haematologica, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
After more than 60 years of research in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT),
this therapy has advanced from one that was declared dead in the 1960s to a standard …

Hematopoietic cell transplantation in older patients with hematologic malignancies: replacing high-dose cytotoxic therapy with graft-versus-tumor effects

PA McSweeney, D Niederwieser… - Blood, The Journal …, 2001 - ashpublications.org
Toxicities have limited the use of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) to
younger, medically fit patients. In a canine HCT model, a combination of postgrafting …

Immunobiology of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

LA Welniak, BR Blazar, WJ Murphy - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has evolved into an effective
adoptive cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of a number of cancers. The …

Nonmyeloablative bone marrow transplantation from partially HLA-mismatched related donors using posttransplantation cyclophosphamide

PV O'donnell, L Luznik, RJ Jones… - Biology of Blood and …, 2002 - tctjournal.org
Cyclophosphamide (Cy) is a potent immunosuppressive agent that is selectively toxic to
lymphocytes proliferating in response to recent antigen stimulation. In animal models, both …

Molecules and mechanisms of the graft-versus-leukaemia effect

M Bleakley, SR Riddell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2004 - nature.com
The ability of allogeneic bone-marrow cells and peripheral-blood stem cells to cure
leukaemia remains the most striking example of the ability of the human immune system to …

Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation without in vitro T-cell depletion for the treatment of hematological malignancies

XJ Huang, DH Liu, KY Liu, LP Xu, H Chen… - Bone marrow …, 2006 - nature.com
Many patients who require allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT)
lack a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched donor. Here, we report a protocol for …