Modified extracorporeal photopheresis with cells from a healthy donor for acute graft-versus-host disease in a mouse model.

Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a major challenge after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation but treatment options for patients are still limited. In many cases first-line treatment with glucocorticoids is not successful. Among second-line therapies the extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is f...

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Main Authors: Holger Budde, Susanne Kolb, Laura Salinas Tejedor, Gerald Wulf, Holger M Reichardt, Joachim Riggert, Tobias J Legler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4141828?pdf=render