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Prevention of graft-versus-host disease by treatment of bone marrow with gliotoxin in fully allogeneic chimeras and their cytotoxic T cell repertoire

Journal Article · · Transplantation; (United States)
Gliotoxin, a secondary fungal metabolite, at nanomolar concentrations, irreversibly inhibits murine T cell proliferation to mitogen. Treatment of allogeneic spleen cells with gliotoxin allows their transfer into sublethally irradiated recipients without inducing a GVH reaction. Gliotoxin treatment of bone marrow allows the establishment of fully allogenic bone marrow chimeras free of GVH disease. The cytotoxic T cell repertoire against influenza virus in these animals is restricted to both host- and donor-type MHC. However, their immune competence is severely compromised by their lack of host MHC-type stimulator cells.
Research Organization:
Australian National Univ., Canberra
OSTI ID:
7184443
Journal Information:
Transplantation; (United States), Journal Name: Transplantation; (United States) Vol. 46:1; ISSN TRPLA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English