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Clin. Exp. Immunol. · Jan 2012
ReviewTranslational Mini-Review Series on B cell subsets in disease. Reconstitution after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation - revelation of B cell developmental pathways and lineage phenotypes.
- M Bemark, J Holmqvist, J Abrahamsson, and K Mellgren.
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. mats.bemark@immuno.gu.se
- Clin. Exp. Immunol. 2012 Jan 1;167(1):15-25.
AbstractHaematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an immunological treatment that has been used for more than 40 years to cure a variety of diseases. The procedure is associated with serious side effects, due to the severe impairment of the immune system induced by the treatment. After a conditioning regimen with high-dose chemotherapy, sometimes in combination with total body irradiation, haematopoietic stem cells are transferred from a donor, allowing a donor-derived blood system to form. Here, we discuss the current knowledge of humoral problems and B cell development after HSCT, and relate these to the current understanding of human peripheral B cell development. We describe how these studies have aided the identification of subsets of transitional B cells and also a robust memory B cell phenotype.© 2011 The Authors. Clinical and Experimental Immunology © 2011 British Society for Immunology.
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