TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zipfel, Julian
A1  - Eyrich, Matthias
A1  - Schlegel, Paul-Gerhardt
A1  - Wiegering, Verena
T1  - Disturbed B cell and DC-Homeostasis in Pediatric cGVHD Patients-Cocultivation Experiments and Review of the Literature
T2  - Clinics in Oncology
N2  - B cells and DCs are suspected to play an important role in the pathogenesis of cGvHD, which is a serious complication of HSCT with high morbidity. It is characterized by immune responses of donor immune cells against recipient-derived antigens.  athogenesis is not yet fully understood, however reconstitution of B cells after HSCT has similarities to physiologic ontogeny. Immunophenotyping and co-cultivation-experiments of B cells and DCs from pediatric patients with cGvHD as well as healthy donors were conducted. Significant differences between patients and healthy donors were observed with increased memory, transitional, CD69+ and CD86+ phenotype and lower levels of naïve B cells due to apoptosis. Co-cultivation revealed this to be primarily B cell-dependent without major effects of and with DCs. There was a decreased CD11c- phenotype in patients and less apoptosis of DCs. Our data suggest a disturbed homeostasis in B cells with increased memory phenotype in patients, whereas DCs could not influence these differences, therefore DCs are not imposing as promising targets. B cell-dependent approaches should be further investigated.
KW  - B cell
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14791
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-147914
VL  - 1
IS  - 1097
ER  -