Project description:This phase II trial studies how well giving fludarabine phosphate, cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and total-body irradiation together with a donor bone marrow transplant works in treating patients with high-risk hematologic cancer. Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate and cyclophosphamide, and total-body irradiation before a donor bone marrow transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells by stopping them from dividing or killing them. Giving cyclophosphamide after transplant may also stop the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor’s bone marrow stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient’s immune system cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body’s normal cells. Giving tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening
Project description:RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage cancer cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation in treating patients who have hematologic cancer.
Project description:Hematopoietic stem cells give rise to all blood lineages, can fully re-populate the bone marrow, and easily outlive the host organism. To better understand how stem cells remain fit during aging, we analyzed the proteome of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells.
Project description:Autoimmunity is often regarded as pathogenic, but this view has gradually shifted over time. Based on insights from thymus selection, T cells are now known to be selected by self-antigens and positive selection in the thymus medulla leads to regulatory functions. B cells are selected in the bone marrow and the fundamental question is whether self-antigens in the bone marrow select antigen specific regulatory B cells. In this work, we show that B cells are indeed selected for proteins expressed in the bone marrow and develop into cells with regulatory function bearing distinct phenotypic fingerprint. Collagen type II specific regulatory B cells trigger the expansion of antigen specific regulatory T cells and protect against development of tissue specific autoimmune inflammation. These antigen specific regulatory B cells constitute a sizeable fraction of the normal B cell repertoire in both mice and humans.
Project description:Mouse bone marrow derived dendritic cells were generated by culturing bone marrow cells at a density of 0.5x10E6 cells/ml in RPMI-1640 supplemented with 5% FCS, 1% Pen/Strep, 5microM 2-mercaptoethanol, 20ng/ml GM-CSF. At day 7 dendritic cells were stimulated or not with 500 ng/ml LPS, and collected at day 10.
2x10E8 cells were used to prepare whole cell extracts and to perform PU.1 immunoprecipitaion with PU.1 antibody (T-21 Santa Cruz). IgG was used as control.
