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Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021 Nov;56(11):2869-2870. doi: 10.1038/s41409-021-01442-3. Epub 2021 Sep 01.

Mesenchymal stromal cell therapy induces high responses and survival in children with steroid refractory GVHD and poor risk biomarkers.

Bone marrow transplantation

Stelios Kasikis, Janna Baez, Isha Gandhi, Stephan Grupp, Carrie L Kitko, Steven Kowalyk, Pietro Merli, George Morales, Michael A Pulsipher, Muna Qayed, Matthias Wölfl, Gregory Yanik, Fiona See, Jack Hayes, Fred Grossman, Elizabeth Burke, Rachel Young, John E Levine, James L M Ferrara

Affiliations

  1. Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
  2. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  3. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
  4. Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
  5. Section of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  6. Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  7. Children's Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
  8. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  9. Mesoblast, Inc., New York, NY, USA.
  10. Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 34471240 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-021-01442-3

[No abstract available.]

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