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Megadose of T cell-depleted bone marrow overcomes MHC barriers in sublethally irradiated mice

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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is uniformly lethal in recipients of HLA-mismatched marrow. In patients with severe combined immunodeficiency disease, this major obstacle can be overcome by rigorous T-cell depletion before transplantation. In leukaemia patients, however, the benefit of preventing GVHD is offset by graft rejection or graft failure. Very recently, this problem was overcome by supplementing T cell-depleted bone marrow transplants with megadoses of peripheral blood stem cells collected by leukapheresis after mobilization of the donor stem cells with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). In the present study, we further demonstrate in a mouse model (C57BL/6→C3H/HeJ) that escalation of bone marrow doses by four- to fivefold leads to full donor-type chimerism in sublethally irradiated (6.5 Gy) recipients. Thus, the new source of G-CSF mobilized human haematopoietic stem cells may enable extending the use of mismatched bone marrow transplants to patients with non-malignant diseases for whom supralethal conditioning is not a prerequisite.

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Bachar-Lustig, E., Rachamim, N., Li, HW. et al. Megadose of T cell-depleted bone marrow overcomes MHC barriers in sublethally irradiated mice. Nat Med 1, 1268–1273 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1295-1268

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