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Review

Delayed Transfer of Immune Cells or the Art of Donor Lymphocyte Infusion

J. H. Frederik Falkenburg  1 , Christoph Schmid  2 , Hans Joachim Kolb  3 , Franco Locatelli  4   5 , Jürgen Kuball  6   7
Enric Carreras  1 , Carlo Dufour  2 , Mohamad Mohty  3 , Nicolaus Kröger  4
, editors.
In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 7th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. Chapter 59.
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Delayed Transfer of Immune Cells or the Art of Donor Lymphocyte Infusion

J. H. Frederik Falkenburg et al.
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In the context of an allogeneic HSCT, the interplay between host and donor immune cells is considered to be the primary mechanism responsible for graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) reactivity and also able to mediate GVHD (Kolb et al.

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