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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6581
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-7-3
pubmed:abstractText
The receptor-ligand pairs CD28-B7 and CD40-gp39 are essential for the initiation and amplification of T-cell-dependent immune responses. CD28-B7 interactions provide 'second signals' necessary for optimal T-cell activation and IL-2 production, whereas CD40-gp39 signals co-stimulate B-cell, macrophage, endothelial cell and T-cell activation. Nonetheless, blockade of either of these pathways alone is not sufficient to permit engraftment of highly immunogenic allografts. Here we report that simultaneous but not independent blockade of the CD28 and CD40 pathways effectively aborts T-cell clonal expansion in vitro and in vivo, promotes long-term survival of fully allogeneic skin grafts, and inhibits the development of chronic vascular rejection of primarily vascularized cardiac allografts. The requirement for simultaneous blockade of these pathways for effective inhibition of alloimmunity indicates that, although they are interrelated, the CD28 and CD40 pathways are critical independent regulators of T-cell-dependent immune responses.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
381
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
434-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Antigens, CD, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Antigens, CD28, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Antigens, CD40, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Antigens, Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-CTLA-4 Antigen, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Cytokines, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Graft Rejection, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Graft Survival, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Heart Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Immunoconjugates, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Mice, Inbred C3H, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Mice, Inbred DBA, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Skin Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:8632801-Transplantation, Homologous
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Long-term acceptance of skin and cardiac allografts after blocking CD40 and CD28 pathways.
pubmed:affiliation
The Carlos and Marguerite Mason Transplantation Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't