| Literature DB >> 16458534 |
Olivier Joffre1, Joost P M van Meerwijk.
Abstract
Induction of immunological tolerance to alloantigens would be the treatment of choice to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) and allograft rejection in transplantation medicine. Organisms use a variety of mechanisms to avoid potentially deadly immunity to self-antigens. The most potent self-tolerance mechanism is probably dominant tolerance assured by regulatory and suppressor T lymphocytes. It appears therefore attractive to use the same mechanism to induce transplantation-tolerance. We here review and discuss recent advances in the use of one of the best-characterized regulatory T lymphocyte populations, CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells, to prevent graft-versus-host disease and bone marrow allograft rejection.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16458534 PMCID: PMC1950263 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2006.01.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Semin Immunol ISSN: 1044-5323 Impact factor: 11.130