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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Hematol. 2014 Mar;21(2):141–147. doi: 10.1097/MOH.0000000000000026

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Pathogenesis if acute GVHD. Tissue damage from conditioning chemotherapy or raditation leads to immune priming and activation of antigen presenting cells (APC), follwed by activation and expansion of alloreactive T cells. These T Cells traffic to target organs and medicate tissue injury resulting in acute GVHD.