Acute graft-versus-host disease: A bench-to-bedside update

Blood

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 363-373

  Holtan, Shernan G ^a   Marcelo, Pasquini ^b   Weisdorf, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; BORTEZOMIB; BRENTUXIMAB VEDOTIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DENILEUKIN DIFTITOX; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; MARAVIROC; METHOTREXATE; PANOBINOSTAT; PENTOSTATIN; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; TOCILIZUMAB; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CELL EXPANSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MICROFLORA; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALLOGRAFTS; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84904471984     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-01-514786     Document Type: Review

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