
Fotoferese extracorpórea é uma modalidade de terapia celular que tem demonstrado eficácia e segurança em pacientes portadores de doenças auto-imunes e mediadas por células T, incluindo esclerodermia, linfoma de células T cutâneo/ Síndrome de Sézary e doença enxerto-contra-hospedeiro após transplante de células-tronco hematopoiéticas. Tem sido empregada, ainda, com o intuito de induzir tolerância em transplantes de órgãos sólidos. O tratamento se baseia no efeito biológico de uma substância fotossensibilizante, o 8-metoxipsoraleno, e da radiação ultravioleta A, nas células mononucleares coletadas por aférese e reinfundidas ao paciente. O mecanismo de ação parece ser devido à indução de imunidade anticlonotípica direcionada a clones patogênicos de células T. O tratamento induz a apoptose de células T patogênicas, e a ativação de células apresentadoras de antígenos desempenha papel importante no processo imunomodulador.Extracorporeal photopheresis is a method of cell therapy that has demonstrated efficacy in autoimmune diseases, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma/Sézary syndrome and graft-versus-host disease after hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. This technique has also been employed as a treatment strategy to induce tolerance after solid organ transplants. Treatment is based on the biological effect of ultraviolet A radiation and a photosensitizing drug, 8-methoxypsoralen, on mononuclear cells collected by apheresis and reinfused into the patient. The suggested mechanism of action is related to the induction of anticlonotypic immunity directed against pathogenic clones of T lymphocytes. Treatment induces apoptosis of pathogenic T-cells, and it appears that activation of antigen-presenting cells has an important role in this process.
psoralens, doença-enxerto-contra hospedeiro, Photopheresis, linfoma cutâneo, graft-versus-host disease, Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, Fotoferese, cutaneous lymphoma, RC633-647.5, psoraleno
psoralens, doença-enxerto-contra hospedeiro, Photopheresis, linfoma cutâneo, graft-versus-host disease, Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, Fotoferese, cutaneous lymphoma, RC633-647.5, psoraleno
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