Transplant trouble spot

Peyer's patches are the key site in initiating acute graft-versus-host reaction.

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Acute graft-versus-host disease (a-GVHD) is one of the major complications in the allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) treatment of lympho-hemopoietic malignancies. The process is initiated primarily by immunologically competent cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) that express anti-host specificities, but the host lymphoid compartment in which the precursor CTLs are stimulated has been unclear. In the January 13 advanced online Nature Immunology, Masako Murai and colleagues at The University of Tokyo, Japan, show that Peyer's patches (PPs) are the essential site in the initiation of acute and lethal graft-versus-host reaction (Nature Immunology, doi:10.1038/ni879, January 13, 2003).

Murai et al. used a murine acute graft-versus-host reaction (a-GVHR) model. They observed that a-GVHR was prevented when recruitment of donor T cells into PPs was interrupted either by disrupting the gene encoding chemokine receptor CCR5 or by blocking integrin α4β7–MAdCAM-1 (mucosal vascular addressin) interactions. In addition, they showed that mice deficient for PPs failed to ...

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