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• Breaking tolerance to self, circulating natural killer cells expressing inhibitory KIR for non-self HLA exhibit effector function after T cell-depleted allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

  Alloreactive natural killer (NK) cells are an important influence on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) outcome. In HLA-mismatched HSCT, a…

  Authors: Junli Yu, Jeffrey M Venstrom, Xiao-Rong Liu, James Pring, Reenat S Hasan, Richard J O'Reilly, Katharine C Hsu

  Source: Blood. 2009 Apr 16

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• KIR and HLA genotypes are associated with disease progression and survival following autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for high-risk neuroblastoma.

  PURPOSE: NK cells exhibit cytotoxicity against neuroblastoma. Gene polymorphisms governing NK cell function, therefore, may influence prognosis. Two h…

  Authors: Jeffrey M Venstrom, Junting Zheng, Nabila Noor, Karen E Danis, Alice W Yeh, Irene Y Cheung, Bo Dupont, Richard J O'Reilly, Nai-Kong V Cheung, Katharine C Hsu

  Source: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2009 Dec 1

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• Survival after pancreas transplantation in patients with diabetes and preserved kidney function.

  CONTEXT: Solitary pancreas transplantation (ie, pancreas alone or pancreas-after-kidney) for diabetes mellitus remains controversial due to procedure-…

  Authors: Jeffrey M Venstrom, Maureen A McBride, Kristina I Rother, Boaz Hirshberg, Trevor J Orchard, David M Harlan

  Source: JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2003 Dec 3

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