Use of cd28-specific monoclonal antibodies for stimulating blood cells that lack cd28

摘要

The invention teaches the use of monoclonal antibodies being specific for CD28 and activating T lymphocytes of several to all sub-groups without an occupation of an antigen receptor of the T lymphocytes and thus in an antigen-unspecific manner, or of an analogue hereto, for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for stimulating blood cells not carrying CD28, and for treating diseases with a reduced number of such blood cells.