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BIOLOGY OF BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 21, Issue 7, Pages 1195-1204Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.03.016
Keywords
IL-12; IL-23; p40; Graft-versus-host disease; Antigen-presenting cells; T cells; T cell differentiation; T cell migration
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- domestic and foreign training of graduate students program in Beijing
- National Institutes of Health [R01 AI080285, CA118116, CA143812, CA169116]
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in both its acute (aGVHD) and chronic (cGVHD) forms, remains a major obstacle impeding successful allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). T cells, in particular pathogenic T helper (Th) 1 and Th17 subsets, are a driving force for the induction of GVHD. IL-12 and IL-23 cytokines share a common p40 subunit and play a critical role in driving Th1 differentiation and in stabilizing the Th17 phenotype, respectively. In our current study, we hypothesized that p40 is an essential cytokine in the development of GVHD. By using p40-deficient mice, we found that both donor- and host-derived p40 contribute to the development of aGVHD. Neutralization of p40 with an anti-p40 mAb inhibited Th1- and Th17-polarization in vitro. Furthermore, anti-p40 treatment reduced aGVHD severity while preserving the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) activity. Alleviation of aGVHD was associated with an increase of Th2 differentiation and a decrease of Th1 and Th17 effector T cells in the GVHD target organs. In addition, anti-p40 treatment attenuated the severity of sclerodermatous cGVHD. These results provide a strong rationale that blockade of p40 may represent a promising therapeutic strategy in preventing and treating aGVHD and cGVHD while sparing the GVL effect after allo-HSCT. 2015 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
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