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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-5-23
pubmed:abstractText
Mixed allogeneic chimerism (A + B-->A) was induced in rats by reconstitution of lethally irradiated LEW recipients with a mixture of T-cell depleted (TCD) syngeneic and TCD allogeneic ACI bone marrow. Thirty-seven percent of animals repopulated as stable mixed lymphopoietic chimeras, while the remainder had no detectable allogeneic chimerism. When evaluated for evidence of donor-specific transplantation tolerance, only those recipients with detectable allogeneic lymphoid chimerism exhibited acceptance of donor-specific skin and cardiac allografts. Despite transplantation over a major histocompatibility complex (MHC)- and minor-disparate barrier, animals accepted donor-specific ACI skin and primarily vascularized cardiac allografts permanently, while rejecting third party Brown Norway (BN) grafts. The tolerance induced was also donor-specific in vitro as evidenced by specific hyporeactivity to the allogeneic donor lymphoid elements, yet normal reactivity to MHC-disparate third party rat lymphoid cells. This model for mixed chimerism in the rat will be advantageous to investigate specific transplantation tolerance to primarily vascularized solid organ grafts that can be performed with relative ease in the rat, but not in the mouse, and may provide a method to study the potential existence of organ- or tissue-specific alloantigens in primarily vascularized solid organ allografts.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0963-6897
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
345-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Bone Marrow Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Heart Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Immune Tolerance, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Lymphocyte Depletion, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Radiation Chimera, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Rats, Inbred ACI, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Rats, Inbred BN, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Rats, Inbred Lew, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Skin Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Tissue Donors, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Transplantation, Homologous, pubmed-meshheading:8162277-Transplantation, Isogeneic
pubmed:articleTitle
Induction of donor-specific transplantation tolerance to skin and cardiac allografts using mixed chimerism in (A + B-->A) in rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't