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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-10-26
pubmed:abstractText
Thirty-eight patients with haematological malignancies were treated with bone marrow transplantation using histocompatible immunotoxin T cell-depleted marrow siblings. All patients received conventional postgraft immunosuppression (methotrexate and/or cyclosporin A). Donor bone marrow was treated ex vivo with T101 Fab fragment coupled to ricin A-chain (T101 Fab-RTA) at a concentration of 10(-8) M of A-chain in association with NH4Cl (2 x 10(-2) M) in pH adjusted (7.8) incubation medium. A median cytoreduction of 99.5% (91-99.5) was obtained. The median of follow-up was 300 days. Only three patients developed grade II acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) (actuarial rate of acute GVHD: 9.1%). No chronic GVHD occurred. All patients but one engrafted. Six out of the 37 patients developed a documented bone marrow rejection (actuarial rate of graft failure: 18%). Ten patients relapsed (actuarial rate of relapse: 36.9%). These findings demonstrate that treatment of donor marrow with T101 Fab-RTA in association with NH4Cl at critical pH value can achieve a high level of mature T cell depletion and greatly reduce the incidence of bone marrow rejection and relapse after T cell-depleted allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0268-3369
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
367-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Donor bone marrow treatment with T101 Fab fragment-ricin A-chain immunotoxin prevents graft-versus-host disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Sanofi Recherche, Montpellier, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article