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The off-target effects of nonspecific NK cells.

Amanda J Lee
Published in: Blood (2015)
In this issue of Blood, Shah et al describe the onset of severe acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in 5 of 9 patients who received infusions of ex vivo expanded donor natural killer (NK) cells after HLA-matched hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Keyphrases
  • nk cells
  • acute myeloid leukemia
  • allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • hematopoietic stem cell