Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 496-504 , April 2009

Immune Reconstitution following Myeloablative Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: The Impact of Expanding CD28negative CD8+ T Cells on Relapse

  • Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha

      Affiliations

    • Service des Maladies du Sang, CHU, Lille, France
    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • EA2686, IFR114, Université Lille 2, Lille, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha, MD, PhD, Service des Maladies du Sang, UAM allogreffes de CSH, CHRU de Lille, F-59037 Lille, France.
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  • Pasquine Saule

      Affiliations

    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • EA2686, IFR114, Université Lille 2, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Leonardo Magro

      Affiliations

    • Service des Maladies du Sang, CHU, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Pascale Cracco

      Affiliations

    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Alain Duhamel

      Affiliations

    • Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Informatique Médicale, Université Lille 2, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Valérie Coiteux

      Affiliations

    • Service des Maladies du Sang, CHU, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Bénédicte Bruno

      Affiliations

    • Service des Maladies du Sang, CHU, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Françoise Dufossé

      Affiliations

    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Jean-Pierre Jouet

      Affiliations

    • Service des Maladies du Sang, CHU, Lille, France
    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • EA2686, IFR114, Université Lille 2, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Jean-Paul Dessaint

      Affiliations

    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • EA2686, IFR114, Université Lille 2, Lille, France
    • ,
  • Myriam Labalette

      Affiliations

    • Service d'Immunologie, CHU, Lille, France
    • EA2686, IFR114, Université Lille 2, Lille, France

Received 31 July 2008 ,Accepted 27 November 2008.

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 The first 2 authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered as first authors.

 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 503.

PII: S1083-8791(08)00588-0

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.11.038

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 496-504 , April 2009

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