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SUBMITTER: Saliba RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5687506 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saliba R M RM Sarantopoulos S S Kitko C L CL Pawarode A A Goldstein S C SC Magenau J J Alousi A M AM Churay T T Justman H H Paczesny S S Reddy P P Couriel D R DR
Bone marrow transplantation 20170508 7
Biological markers for risk stratification of chronic GvHD (cGvHD) could improve the care of patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Increased plasma levels of B-cell activating factor (BAFF), chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 9 (CXCL9) and elafin have been associated with the diagnosis, but not with outcome in patients with cGvHD. We evaluated the association between levels of these soluble proteins, measured by ELISA at the time of cGvHD diagnosis and before the in ...[more]