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Blood, 15 July 2007, Vol. 110, No. 2, pp. 783-786. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on March 29, 2007; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-10-054510. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplemental Figure All Versions of this Article: blood-2006-10-054510v1 110/2/783    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Borsotti, C. Articles by van den Brink, M. R. M. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Borsotti, C. Articles by van den Brink, M. R. M. Related Collections Immunobiology Transplantation Brief Reports Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  TRANSPLANTATION Brief Report Absence of donor T-cell–derived soluble TNF decreases graft-versus-host disease without impairing graft-versus-tumor activity Chiara Borsotti1, Anna R. K. Franklin1, Sydney X. Lu1, Theo D. Kim1, Odette M. Smith1, David Suh1, Chris G. King1, Andrew Chow1, Chen Liu2, Onder Alpdogan1, and Marcel R. M. van den Brink1 1 Departments of Medicine and Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; 2 Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays an important role in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and graft-versus-tumor (GVT) activity after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (allo-BMT). TNF can be expressed in a membrane-bound form (memTNF) and as a soluble (solTNF) molecule after being cleaved by the TNF- converting enzyme (TACE). To study the contribution of donor T-cell–derived memTNF versus solTNF in GVHD and GVT, we used mice containing a noncleavable allele in place of endogenous TNF (memTNF/) as donors in murine BMT models. Recipients of memTNF T cells developed significantly less GVHD than recipients of wild-type (wt) T cells. In contrast, GVT activity mediated by memTNF T cells remained intact, and alloreactive memTNF T cells showed no defects in proliferation, activation, and cytotoxicity. These data suggest that suppressing the secretion of solTNF by donor T cells significantly decreases GVHD without impairing GVT activity. CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? This article has been cited by other articles: T. Yi, D. Zhao, C.-L. Lin, C. Zhang, Y. Chen, I. Todorov, T. LeBon, F. Kandeel, S. Forman, and D. Zeng Absence of donor Th17 leads to augmented Th1 differentiation and exacerbated acute graft-versus-host disease Blood, September 1, 2008; 112(5): 2101 - 2110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] J. E. Levine, S. Paczesny, S. Mineishi, T. Braun, S. W. Choi, R. J. Hutchinson, D. Jones, Y. Khaled, C. L. Kitko, D. Bickley, et al. Etanercept plus methylprednisolone as initial therapy for acute graft-versus-host disease Blood, February 15, 2008; 111(4): 2470 - 2475. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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