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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Transfusion. 2008 Dec 23;49(4):786–796. doi: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.02027.x

TABLE 2.

Partial listing of cell therapy product requests and treatment indications

Cell product* Treatment indication or objective
Cardiac stem/progenitor cells Cardiac regeneration in acute myocardial infarction
Mesenchymal stem cells* Repair cardiac damage in patients after myocardial infarction
Sickle cell disease
Autologous CD34+ stem cells Intermittent claudication
Autologous marrow MNCs* Cardiac repair during left ventricular assisted device placement
Stroke
Left-ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction
Treatment of traumatic brain injury
Cytomegalovirus (CMV), adenovirus, and EBV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (PB-derived) Prevent and treat viral infection (CMV, EBV, or adenovirus)
Treatment of refractory posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease
Autologous mature apoptotic dendritic cells with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 Therapeutic autologous vaccine for HIV-1 infected patients
Dendritic cells antisense and oligodeoxyribonucleotides Preserving residual β cell mass in Type 1 diabetes
Allogeneic (haploidentical) natural killer cells Control residual viral infection
Vaccine-human fetal lung-derived fibroblast cell line Non–small cell lung cancer
Human leukemic T-cell line Prostate cancer
B95-8 EBV LCL line (reagent) Expand EBV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes to treat lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Human chronic myeloid leukemia–derived cell line Treatment of persistent or relapsed B-lymphoid malignancies
Autologous LMP-1 and LMP-2–specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes Treatment of EBV positive Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas
Dendritic cells loaded with killed autologous chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells Therapeutic vaccination of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
Natural killer-92 cell line Treatment of advanced lymphomas and leukemias
Natural killer cells (UCB-derived) Treatment of myeloid leukemia
Allogeneic (leukapheresed) natural killer cells Postautologous stem cell transplant for patients at risk of relapse
Allo-depleted donor leukocytes Enhance immune reconstitution
Multivalent virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (UCB-derived) Immune reconstitution of cord blood transplant patients
Allogeneic T-cell-depleted progenitor cells (PB-derived) Improve immune reconstruction posttransplant
Hematopoietic progenitor stem cells (UCB-derived) Marrow reconstitution
CD4+/CD25+ T regulatory cells (PB-derived) Prevent graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD) and maintain graft-versus-leukemia
Allogeneic EBV-LCL cell line Natural killer cell expansion to reduce GVHD and enhance graft-versus-tumor after nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant
T-regulatory cells (UCB-derived) Decrease GVHD and enhance engraftment
Skeletal myoblasts Translational development (cardiac)
Stem cells (adipose-derived) Translational development (ischemia)
Pancreatic islets cells Translational development to improve digestion process closed system (diabetes)
*

Multiple applications are grouped by cell product.

EBV = Epstein-Barr virus; PB = peripheral blood; UCB = umbilical cord blood.