Summary
In partially matched donor transplantation, mandatory T‐cell depletion (TCD) increases the risks of rejection/graft failure, relapse, and post‐transplant infections. A multi‐donor approach was offered to resolve some of these drawbacks. This hypothesis was previously tested in a TCD fully mismatched murine model. However, the effect of multi‐donor transplantation (MDT) on graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD) and graft versus tumor (GVT) effect were never tested. To assess the safety and efficacy of MDT, we used it in non‐TCD transplantation and murine breast carcinoma model. We found that when transplanting non‐TCD MDT composed by C57Bl/6 and C3H cells into BALB/c, a consistent trichimerism is established, dominated by C57Bl/6 cells. Following MDT the study animals experienced reduced GVHD compare with those transplanted from C57Bl/6 alone, while the GVT effect was superior. We conclude that MDT may serve as a technique that suppresses GVHD while maintaining the GVT effect.
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