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To review the clinical role of donor lymphocyte transfusions, the mechanistic basis of graft-versus-leukemia reactions, related complications, and novel strategies to optimize adoptive immunotherapy.

September 9, 2003Blood

Graft-versus-leukemia reactions in allogeneic chimeras

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HKHans‐Jochem KolbNational Institutes of Health CSChristoph SchmidAugsburg University ABA. John BarrettHuman Genome Sciences (United States)

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Review summarizes graft-versus-leukemia mechanisms and donor lymphocyte transfusion outcomes in hematologic malignancies, highlighting emerging strategies to separate antitumor efficacy from toxicity.

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To review the clinical role of donor lymphocyte transfusions, the mechanistic basis of graft-versus-leukemia reactions, related complications, and novel strategies to optimize adoptive immunotherapy.
Synthesized findings from multicenter surveys and clinical literature evaluating donor lymphocyte transfusions following allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Assessed emerging interventions, including cytokine-mediated differentiation, suicide gene-modified T cells, antigen-specific adoptive T-cell transfer, and HLA-mismatched natural killer cell alloreactivity.
Donor lymphocyte transfusions demonstrate high efficacy in inducing sustained remissions for chronic myelogenous leukemia, but show comparatively lower efficacy in acute leukemia and myeloma.
Graft-versus-host disease and opportunistic infections represent principal therapeutic limitations of donor lymphocyte transfusions.
Targeting minor histocompatibility antigens and utilizing suicide gene modifications or HLA-mismatched alloreactive natural killer cells provide promising routes to decouple antitumor responses from tissue toxicity.

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Kolb et al. (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1f0cf252be8f5fb3e6c8c1 https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2003-02-0342

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