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 | | Ex vivo expansion with CD3/CD28 co-stimulation may provide clinically relevant numbers T cells available for adoptive immunotherapy that have also undergone partial maturation. |
 | | The second patient, a 7-year-old girl with SCD, was given 2/3 of the CB unit unmanipulated and 1/3 after ex vivo expansion. |
 | | The authors conclude that these preliminary results indicate that the expansion procedure is safe and able to ex vivo expand CB HPCs; the expanded cells seem to accelerate hematopoietic recovery and, for the first time, the authors demonstrated that these cells contribute to sustain hematopoietic recovery after CBT. |
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