Abstract
Cord blood transplantation, an alternative to traditional stem cell transplants (bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation), is an attractive option for patients lacking suitable stem cell transplant donors. Cord blood units have also proven to be a valuable donor source for the development of cellular therapeutics. Virus-specific T cells and regulatory T cells are two cord blood-derived products that have shown promise in early-phase clinical trials to prevent and/or treat viral infections and graft-versus-host disease, respectively. We describe how current strategies that use cord blood-derived regulatory T cells and virus-specific T cells have been developed to improve outcomes for cord blood transplant recipients.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 749-755 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Cytotherapy |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors acknowledge Dr John E. Wagner for review and comments. This work was supported in part by NCI PO1 CA148600-02 (CMB), PF-13-046-01-LIB from the American Cancer Society (PJH), NCI P01 CA65493 (CGB) and a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar in Clinical Research Award, grant R6029-07 (CGB).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 International Society for Cellular Therapy.
Keywords
- Antiviral
- Cell therapy
- Cord blood
- Graft-versus-host disease
- Immunotherapy
- Regulatory t cells (Treg)
- Transplant