The role of purine metabolites as DAMPs in acute graft-versus-host disease.

Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) causes high mortality in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). An early event in the classical pathogenesis of acute GVHD is tissue damage caused by the conditioning treatment or infection that consecutively leads to tra...

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Main Authors: Petya Apostolova, Robert Zeiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
ATP
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2016.00439/full