Articles

Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell therapy for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

BJH - volume 7, issue 6, december 2016

S. Servais MD, PhD, C. Grégoire MD, F. Baron MD, PhD, E. Willems MD, PhD, A. Briquet PhD, E. Baudoux MD, O. Delloye PhD, O. Giet PhD, C. Lechanteur PhD, Y. Beguin MD, PhD

Summary

Steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease is a severe complication after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. So far, its treatment remains very challenging since the current therapies do not offer significant benefits. Among the most recent approaches, multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell-based therapy has attracted great interest over the past decade. Here, we briefly reviewed the current knowledges about the immunomodulatory properties of multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells as well as results of preclinical and clinical studies having assessed their efficacy to modulate steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease.

(BELG J HEMATOL 2016;7(6):229–35)

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P3.03 Study of immune recovery in a randomized phase II trial of sequential double autologous transplantation with unmanipulated or AC133+ PBSC in patients with multiple myeloma

BJH - volume 6, issue Abstract Book BHS, january 2015

M. Hannon , S. Servais MD, PhD, R. Schots MD, PhD, E. Castermans , L. Seidel , A. Gothot MD, PhD, E. Baudoux MD, O. Giet PhD, N. Wanten , E. Willems MD, PhD, C. Daulne , I. Van Riet PhD, Y. Beguin MD, PhD, F. Baron MD, PhD

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