Keratin 8 enhances the efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease.
BACKGROUND Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). The development of methods that preserve graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) activity while preventing aGVHD remains a long-sought goal. Recent studies sugg...