Cerebral involvement in graft-versus-host disease after murine bone marrow transplantation.

Padovan, C S; Gerbitz, A; Sostak, P; Holler, E; Ferrara, J L; Bise, K; Straube, A · Neurology · 2001

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Neurologic manifestation of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has until now been limited to rare neuromuscular syndromes. Investigating cerebral findings using a murine BMT model, the authors found parenchymal lymphocytic inflammation, microglia activation, and mild cerebral angiitis-like changes in allogeneic transplanted animals but not in syngeneic controls. These findings suggest that cerebral involvement during GvHD may be a new neurologic complication after BMT.

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