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Effector Mechanisms in Graft-versus-host Disease in Response to Minor Histocompatibility Antigens. I. Absence of Correlation with Cytotoxic Effector Cells

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Journal Transplantation
Specialty General Surgery
Date 1990 Jul 1
PMID 2368152
Citations 9
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Cell-mediated immunity against minor histocompatibility (mH) antigens is assumed to contribute to the development of graft-vs.-host disease in recipients of HLA-identical bone marrow grafts. To investigate the role of antihost-specific cytotoxic effector cells, we analyzed patients' T cell cultures after transplantation, in a chromium release assay using T lymphoblasts from patients and donors as target cells. Sixteen patients were studied between 1 and 25 months after grafting. Specific antihost cytotoxic T cell activity was detected in 4 of 5 patients with acute GVHD and in 5 of 5 patients with chronic GVHD, but also in 5 of 6 patients without any clinical signs of GVHD. Generally, the antihost Tc cell activity appeared within the first 3 months, increased to a maximum between 3 and 6 months, and gradually disappeared thereafter. This time effect was significant (P = 0.002). There was a suggestive trend in patients with chronic GVHD toward developing higher and more persistent levels of antihost Tc cell activity than in those without GVHD. Yet, these results can no longer support our earlier finding that the generation of antihost Tc cells is associated with the development of GVHD, since antihost Tc cells could be generally detected whether or not GVHD occurred. Our findings do not a priori exclude an effector cell role for Tc cells in GVHD but strongly indicate that other risk factors must be involved as well.

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