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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
Antibodies can mediate injury of organ transplants by several mechanisms, including complement activation and interaction with Fc receptors on cells. We tested the hypothesis that antibodies could also cause up-regulation of complement receptors on cells to increase the responses to complement activation by interaction with split products of C3. In our experimental model, B10.A (H-2(a)) cardiac transplants survive significantly longer in C57BL/6 (H-2(b)) immunoglobulin knockout recipients (IgKO) than in their wild-type counterparts. Passive transfer of specific antibodies to donor MHC class I to IgKO recipients of cardiac allografts at the time coinciding with a vigorous cellular infiltration reconstituted acute rejection. We tested the effects of alloantibodies on CR1/2 expression by alloantigen-stimulated T cells. Both CD4(+)/CR1/2(+) and CD8(+)/CR1/2(+) populations of T cells were expanded in C57BL/6 splenocytes stimulated by B10.A alloantigen in 7-day MLR after coculture with endothelial cells sensitized with IgG1 and IgG2b mAb specific to MHC. Endothelial cells sensitized with antibodies also caused an expansion of CD8(+) T cells expressing CR1/2 in lymph node lymphocytes harvested from a C57BL/6 recipient of a B10.A cardiac allograft. These data suggest that antibodies can augment the cellular rejection process through expanding the population of T cells interacting with complement split products.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0041-1345
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
32-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Expression of CR1/2 receptor on alloantigen-stimulated mouse T cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural