The treatment of blood components with ultraviolet-B irradiation
The treatment of blood components with ultraviolet-B irradiation
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1423-0410.1998.tb05395.x
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发表时间:
1998-01-01
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2.7
通讯作者:
Pamphilon, DH
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作者:
Pamphilon, DH
Patients with haematological disorders resulting in bone marrow failure receive multiple transfusions of blood products and frequently develop alloantibodies against the class I HLA antigens found on both leucocytes and platelets. Alloimmunisation to HLA may lead to refractoriness to further transfusions of unselected platelets. It is now appreciated that the leucocytes expressing HLA class I1 antigens, found in platelet suspensions, are required to induce alloimmunisation; pure platelet suspensions do not induce the formation of alloantibodies in animal studies and filtration of blood products significantly reduces the incidence of alloimmunisation and refractoriness.[1] UV irradiation has been shown to reduce the proliferative responses of lymphocytes to alloantigens and mitogens and investigators have shown that it is possible to irradiate platelet concentrates (PCs) so that the platelets themselves retain acceptable function whilst the proliferative responses of residual leucocytes contained within PCs were abolished. UV-B irradiation might therefore be employed as an alternative to leucodepletion as a means of reducing or preventing alloimmunisation following platelet transfusions. This brief paper discusses the physical effects and biological activity of UV-irradiation. It describes the in vitro effects of UV-B irradiation in particular on leucocytes and platelets and reviews clinical data where PCs irradiated with UV-B have been studied to evaluate their haemostatic efficacy and impact on alloimmunisation and refractoriness.