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BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
卷 150, 期 6, 页码 1055-1060出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2004.05918.x
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apoptosis; extracorporeal photochemotherapy; graft-versus-host disease; monocytes
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Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) affects 50% of long-term bone marrow transplant survivors and remains a cause of major long-term morbidity in these patients despite aggressive therapy. Extracorporeal photochemotherapy (ECP), considered as an effective treatment for patients with erythrodermic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), has recently been used successfully in the treatment of GvHD. One of the most intriguing aspects of ECP is its ability to induce two apparently opposite effects: activation of the immune system against neoplastic cells (as in CTCL) and downregulation of the activity of T-cell clones in autoimmune diseases (as in systemic sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and pemphigus vulgaris) and autoallogeneic immune responses (as in GvHD and allograft rejection). Only a better and more complete understanding of the various mechanisms involved will enable this interesting new therapy to be made more effective and selective.
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