New finding affecting immune reconstitution related to B cells

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Researchers from the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles examined the mechanisms of B cell immune reconstitution in pediatric patients who had undergone bone marrow transplantation and discovered a disruption in the maturation of B cells -- critical to the immune system -- preventing the production of antibodies that fight infection. The results of the study were published in the journal Biology of Blood and Marrow ...