Zeng Defu, Lan Fengshuo, Hoffmann Petra, Strober Samuel
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Transplantation. 2004 Jan 15;77(1 Suppl):S9-S11. doi: 10.1097/01.TP.0000106475.38978.11.
Studies of graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation have shown that there are subsets of freshly isolated donor T cells that induce the disease and subsets that suppress the disease. The balance of subsets in the graft determines disease severity. The authors' work on the nature of the regulatory-suppressor T cells and their mechanisms of action is summarized in this article.