Decreased neuronal inhibition in cerebral cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder on transcranial magnetic stimulation
Decreased neuronal inhibition in cerebral cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder on transcranial magnetic stimulation
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(05)60009-8
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发表时间:
1998-09-12
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168.9
通讯作者:
Wassermann, EM
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作者:
Greenberg, BD;Ziemann, U;Wassermann, EM
Transplantation of autologous haemopoietic stem cells (HSC) after myeloablative chemotherapy has been proposed as a potential therapeutic strategy for severe and refractory autoimmune diseases. 1 Disease recurrence has, however, been seen after transplantation of unseparated HSC, presumably because of reinfusion of pathogenic T cells. 2 T-cell depletion of the autologous HSC transplant is, therefore, currently recommended for autoimmune disease. 3 A major concern with such transplants is the restoration of the immune system, especially in adults. We report on a young woman successfully treated by autologous HSC transplantation for rheumatoid arthritis. A white woman aged 22 years who had intractable rheumatoid arthritis refractory to available antirheumatic agents was selected for autologous HSC transplantation after approval by the ethics committee of the hospital and after she gave informed consent. Mobilisation of peripheral-blood stem cells was achieved with cyclophosphamide (1· 5 g/m2) and etoposide (300 mg/m2), followed by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor administration (5 g/kg). The leukapheresis product was enriched by CD34 stem cells and further depleted of CD4 and CD8 cells by Isolex 300i device (Baxter Immunotherapy Division, Deerfield, USA). The HSC transplant (6· 5106 CD34 cells/kg with a purity of 98· 4%) was shown to be devoid of T cells by flow cytometry. Transplantation of T-cell-depleted HSC was performed on Aug 28, 1997 (day 0), after administration of busulfan 4 mg daily from day 7 to day 4 and cyclophosphamide 60 mg daily from day 3 to day 2, according to consensus guidelines. 310 months after transplantation, the patient was free of arthritis, with a health-assessment questionnaire score of 1 (compared with 13 before transplantation) and a serum concentration of C-reactive protein of less than 2 mg/dL (value before transplantation 12 mg/dL) without any antirheumatic medication. Blood CD4 cell count returned to pretransplantation values (384/mm3), and CD45 RA naive cells reappeared (6· 3% of total CD4 cells). Enumeration of CD4 T cells expressing T-cell receptors of different V families showed a restoration of T-cell diversity, compared with the major skewing seen 3 months after transplantation (table). Similarly, the in-vitro T-cell proliferative responses to candidin which was greatly impaired at 3 months, returned to pretransplantation levels