Project description:This phase II trial studies how well cyclophosphamide works in preventing chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant in patients with hematological malignancies. Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation before transplantation helps stop the growth of cancer cells and prevents the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor’s stem cells. Healthy stem cells from a donor that are infused into the patient help the patient’s bone marrow make blood cells; red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes, however, the transplanted donor cells can cause an immune response against the body’s normal cells, which is called graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Giving cyclophosphamide after transplant may prevent this from happening or may make chronic GVHD less severe.
Project description:RNA-Seq of lymph node fibroblastic reticular cells isolated from bone marrow transplant recipient mice with or without acute Graft-versus-host disease on day 7 or untransplanted control mice
Project description:Analysis of donor CD4+ and CD8+ T cells purified from spleens and ovaries after murine syngeneic and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Infertility associated with ovarian failure is a serious late complication for female survivors of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). While the role of pretransplant conditioning regimen has been well appreciated, increasing application of reduced-intensity conditioning facilitated us to revisit the other factors possibly affecting ovarian function after allogeneic SCT. We have addressed whether donor T-cell mediated graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) could be causally related to female infertility in mice. To study transcriptomes of donor T cells infiltrating into the ovary, donor T cells were sorted from recipients' ovaries and microarray analysis was performed.
Project description:RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also stops the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor’s stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient’s immune 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, sirolimus, antithymocyte globulin, and methotrexate before and after transplant may stop this from happening.
PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well sirolimus, tacrolimus, and antithymocyte globulin work in preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing a donor stem cell transplant for hematological cancer .
Project description:This phase II trial studies how well tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil works in preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients who have undergone total-body irradiation (TBI) with or without fludarabine phosphate followed by donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant for hematologic cancer. Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate, and TBI before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also stops the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor’s stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient’s immune system 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:A protein signature that could identify graft-versus-tumor (GVT) activity without graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), would allow for customized treatment plans following hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Using orthogonal three-dimensional intact-protein analysis system (IPAS)
coupled with protein tagging and novel systems biology pipeline, we identified a signature of 49 proteins that are significantly increased in the plasma of HCT patients who received donor lymphocyte injection for tumor relapse and develop GVT without GVHD.
