Consider how bone marrow transplantation can rescue a defective or ablated immune system. What properties are required for the transplanted cells to reconstitute a normal immune system? Is it equivalent to use bone marrow or hematopoetic stem cells isolated from the blood?
Accumulated evidences demonstrate that active function and trafficking of immune cells, including regulatory T cells, conventional T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, natural killer T (NKT) cells, neutrophils, myeloid-derived suppressor cells and mesenchymal stem cells, are observed in the bone marrow. Thus a bone marrow transplant can rescue a defective or ablated immune system.
one has to consider the HLA gene matching before the transplant so as to reconstitute the normal immune system.
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