Immunomodulation Effects of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells on Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Ke Zhao, Rui Lou, Fen Huang, Yanwen Peng, Zujun Jiang, Ke Huang, Xiuli Wu, Yu Zhang, Zhiping Fan, Hongsheng Zhou, Can Liu, Yang Xiao, Jing Sun, Yangqiu Li, Peng Xiang, Qifa Liu Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 97-104 (January 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.09.030 Copyright © 2015 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Characteristics of human MSCs. (A) The morphology of human MSCs (passage 4) monitored by phase contrast microscopy. (B) Oil red O staining of adipogenic differentiated human MSCs. (C) Alizarin red S staining of osteogenic differentiated human MSCs. (D) Flow cytometric analysis of surface markers of human MSCs. Scale bar = 200 μm. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2015 21, 97-104DOI: (10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.09.030) Copyright © 2015 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Cumulative incidence of CMV viremia (A), CMV-associated diseases (B), EBV viremia (C), and EBV-associated diseases (D). The 1-year cumulative incidence of CMV viremia and CMV-associated diseases was 53.1% ± 6.5% and 18.5% ± 5.8% in the MSC group compared with 46.9% ± 7.3% and 6.2% ± 5.1% in the control group (P = .488 and P = .215). The 1-year cumulative incidence of EBV viremia and EBV-associated diseases was 30.8% ± 10.1% and 24.3% ± 6.7% in the MSC group compared with 37.4% ± 8.2% and 12.8% ± 4.3% in the control group (P = .597 and P = .478). Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2015 21, 97-104DOI: (10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.09.030) Copyright © 2015 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Terms and Conditions
Figure 3 Lymphocyte subsets of CD3+CD4+ T cells (A), CD3+CD8+ T cells (B), and CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Tregs (C) before and 4, 8, 12, 24, and 36 weeks after the study treatments. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2015 21, 97-104DOI: (10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.09.030) Copyright © 2015 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Terms and Conditions